The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
RAHM EMANUELBob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that’s how we get judged by our colleagues and that’s how we get judged by the good lord.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush’s shovel.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you’re raising money to fund that effort because there’s always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
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My attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody’s private life.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
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Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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