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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

Rahm Emanuel

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
RAHM EMANUEL

Clear Message Work
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
RAHM EMANUEL

Bill Deliver Forget Lend President Slow
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Action God Goodness Judgment Live Thinking
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?
RAHM EMANUEL

Comfortable Failure Majority Mindset Terrorism Tough World
When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.
RAHM EMANUEL

Greatness Home Myself People
Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It’s a reminder there’s a lot broken.
RAHM EMANUEL

Break Call Reminder Wake Up
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Different Election Federal Friendship Live Rule
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Crisis Opportunity Serious Thinking Wasted Time Yourself
There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
RAHM EMANUEL

Citizenship Drugs Home Leaving
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Aspiration Myself Representation Run
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
RAHM EMANUEL

Crisis Judgement Leadership White
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Graduation Passion People Progression Work
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
RAHM EMANUEL

President Serious Violence Weapon
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.
RAHM EMANUEL

Existence Honesty Kind Pressure Profession Story
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Country Economy Politics Strong

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