My attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
RAHM EMANUELMy attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
More Rahm Emanuel Quotes
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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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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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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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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.
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The American people want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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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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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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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that’s how we get judged by our colleagues and that’s how we get judged by the good lord.
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I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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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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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.
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There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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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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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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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.
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