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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

Rahm Emanuel

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
We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
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Clear Message Work
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Hero Ourselves Sacrifice Thankful Time
As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.
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Department End Ourselves Police Problem Tragedy Weapon
Under Superintendent Johnson’s leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
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Community Leadership Police
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
In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
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Accountable Expectation Office Right Safety Willing Wrong
We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.
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Community Definition Engagement Hands Pressure Rule Wrong
Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
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Journalism Myself Politics System Thinking
I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Ability Hurt Myself Place
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Change Ideas People Reform
When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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Children Parents Police Problem Trust
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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Aspiration Myself Representation Run
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
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Children Citizenship Myself Treat
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Enemy Nervous People

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