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Rahm Emanuel

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
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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Believe Establishment Help Important President Record
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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President Serious Violence Weapon
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.
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Crime Fight Partnership Problem
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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Deal Emotional Let Go President Professional Yourself
In the White House, you can be on the pitcher’s mound or you can be in the catcher’s position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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Commitment Deliver Government People Yourself
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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Burden Desire Money Raise Yourself
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.
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Bill Deliver Forget Lend President Slow
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
For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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Call Greatness Love Ourselves Proud
I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
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Blame Country History Myself Negative
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
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Call Flame Liberal Myself Oppression
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
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
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Geography Security Value

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