Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It’s a reminder there’s a lot broken.
RAHM EMANUELIt is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
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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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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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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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It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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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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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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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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Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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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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There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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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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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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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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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.
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