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Published On: Fri, Dec 4th, 2015

Rahm Emanuel Quotes

I own the problem of police brutality, and I’ll fix it… – Chicago Tribune Dec. 4, 2015 op-ed

What I strongly reject is the suggestion that the videotape of the McDonald shooting was withheld from the public because of the election. – Chicago Tribune Dec. 4, 2015 op-ed


 

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before. – November 2008, to Wall Street Journal conference of top corporate chief executives

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.

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.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Obama Chief of Staff, says this is 'not the strike' he would have like to see

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Obama Chief of Staff, says this is ‘not the strike’ he would have like to see

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.

I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

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.

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

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.

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.

The American people… want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about – not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

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.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

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?

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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