I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
RAHM EMANUELWhose 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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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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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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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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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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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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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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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.
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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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Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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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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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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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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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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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It’s a reminder there’s a lot broken.
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