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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.

Rahm Emanuel

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
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Deal Emotional Let Go President Professional Yourself
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
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
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
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Community Enforcement Law Media Relationship World
There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
RAHM EMANUEL

Hide Run Safety
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
The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
RAHM EMANUEL

Change Ideas People Reform
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Build Crime Effort Fight Friendship Patience Police Training
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
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
I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody’s private life.
RAHM EMANUEL

Believe Government Investigation Life Myself Privacy Right
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
RAHM EMANUEL

Enemy Nervous People
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 EMANUEL

Appreciation Condition Difficult Police Situation
Everybody knows they’re on the Obama team: There isn’t vice presidential vs. presidential division, there’s not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
RAHM EMANUEL

History Moments People Reality

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