Rahm Emanuel Quotes

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• 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

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Cancer Makes Strange Bedfellows" by Dan Duffy, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Morning, Hate, Wake Up

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• You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Want, Waste, Serious

  YouTube Channel "Wall Street Journal"/"Rahm Emanuel on the Opportunities of Crisis", www.youtube.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Crazy, Tampons

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• We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Gun, Law, Class

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• Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'

  Rahm Emanuel

  Two, People, Four

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• Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Abuse, Culture, Tiny

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Chicago, Chicks, Values

  "Are City Officials Overstepping On Chick-fil-A?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 31, 2012.

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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.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Our Actions, Lord

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• No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Law, Responsible, Should

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Rahm Emanuel

  Ideas, People, Reform

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• You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.

  Rahm Emanuel

  May, Mayors

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• 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?

  Rahm Emanuel

  America, Comforting, Mind

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• I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

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  Thinking, Important, Judgment

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

  Rahm Emanuel

  Land, White, Office

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2012.

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• We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Play, Cities, People

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• As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the very heart of the policing profession. The problem is sometimes referred to as "the thin blue line." The problem is other times referred to as "the code of silence." It is this tendency to ignore. It is the tendency to deny. It is the tendency, in some cases, to cover up the bad actions of a colleague or colleagues.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Moving, Heart, Blue

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I mean,you will have an Afghan government. There are two roads here. One is obviously a run-off election or a negotiated settlement. But what's most important about that process is that there's a credibility and a legitimacy to the government at the end of that process. So which road they choose, that's up to them. It must have - be legitimate and credible in the eyes of the Afghan people.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Running, Mean, Eye

  "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

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• Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans themselves are going to define what happens here. And we have to convince ourselves that we have a strategy in place that empowers them to do that and that is realistic in what our expectations are from them and on what schedule.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Military, Numbers, Expectations

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have it. You could do it. I think weather is a factor. The most important factor though is credibility and legitimacy. What I wanted earlier to say is what I think Senator [John] Kerry is pointing to, which is important, is the strategic review on whether to send more troops is only one piece of the puzzle, important piece.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Weather, People

  "Rahm Emanuel, Senator Kerry, Senator Cornyn on "Face the Nation"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 18, 2009.

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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

  Strong, Class, Digging

  "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.

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• 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

  Wall, Feet, President

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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

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  War, Facts, Policy

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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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  Thinking, Political, Example

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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.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Running, Cities, House

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