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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.

Rahm Emanuel

Under Superintendent Johnson’s leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
RAHM EMANUEL

Community Leadership Police
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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Action God Goodness Judgment Live Thinking
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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Graduation Passion People Progression Work
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America’s security foremost in mind?
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Comfortable Failure Majority Mindset Terrorism Tough World
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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Deal Emotional Let Go President Professional Yourself
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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President Serious Violence Weapon
Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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Affordable Health Leadership Quality
The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.
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Community Enforcement Law Media Relationship World
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Change Ideas People Reform
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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Crisis Fix Greatness Manual Time War
I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody’s private life.
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Believe Government Investigation Life Myself Privacy Right
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
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Different Election Federal Friendship Live Rule
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Enemy Nervous People
Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
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Crime Fight Partnership Problem
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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Crisis Opportunity Serious Thinking Wasted Time Yourself
Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It’s a reminder there’s a lot broken.
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Break Call Reminder Wake Up

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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