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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

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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Crime Fight Partnership Problem
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
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
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
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Department End Ourselves Police Problem Tragedy Weapon
There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
RAHM EMANUEL

Hide Run Safety
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
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
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
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
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
When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.
RAHM EMANUEL

Greatness Home Myself People
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
RAHM EMANUEL

Hero Ourselves Sacrifice Thankful Time
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.
RAHM EMANUEL

Journalism Myself Politics System Thinking
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?
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Crisis Judgement Leadership White
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

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