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I'm an ardent feminist.
My mother is a fascinating person.
I support a progressive state income tax.
I think he's a great talent, Stephen Colbert.
Community isn't something I ever take for granted.
When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.
You know, I can't afford to take anything for granted.
The only thing you have in your life is your integrity.
If people don't feel safe, they're not going to have hope.
I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.
Breaking the back of the Chicago machine, it's quite monumental.
Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.
I am an independent reform candidate. I do not represent the past.
I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.
I can't look into the crystal ball. All I can do is the here and now.
I live in a world in which I have a very, very diverse group of friends.
I am a lesbian. I am married to a woman. We have a child. We have a family.
I think about my parents, and I think a lot about the sacrifices they have made.
I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.
I've been lucky and I recognize that, but I haven't lost sight of that girl I was.
When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.
We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn't determine your destiny.
Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.
People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.
Obviously, I believe that Rahm Emanuel's leadership has failed. Obviously, I believe we need change.
Retired public service workers make up the backbone of the middle class in so many of our communities.
What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.
Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.
You know, I'm a former federal prosecutor. Before ICE was ICE, I did a lot of cases with Customs Enforcement.
Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that's humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.
I'm not a person who puts things out in writing and policy prescriptions and is not intending to follow through.
The whole circus surrounding Ed Burke, I knew immediately from my days as a federal prosecutor, was very, very serious.
We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.
Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.
When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.
There's significant movement as far to the left in our party as far as you can go, where people are trying to out-Bernie Bernie.
I gotta be me. I'm going to go to ball games, because that's what I do. I'm going to go to live music shows, because I love live music.
Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that's where I'm going to put a significant amount of input.
We need to educate our young people about the dangers of gun violence and that there are real consequences for solving disputes with guns.
I am not tied to the broken political machine, and I did not aspire to climb the ranks of the Cook County Democratic Party to be the party boss.
You know, when you get the White House operator and they say, 'Just a moment for the president of the United States,' that's a pretty heady moment.
I don't think I'll be a good mayor if I don't live my authentic life, and that's got to be involved with having fun with my spouse and my daughter.
Fundamentally, if people don't feel like their lives are valued and they don't value their lives, they're not going to value their neighbors' lives.
But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.
I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.
We have to get to a place in the city where our young officers understand that respectful, constitutional engagement with the community is their most powerful tool.
In Massillon, you either hated football, or you loved it. On a Friday night in the fall, I don't know what anybody did if they weren't at, quote-unquote, 'The Game.'
We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.
I am not opposed to video gambling as long as it is properly regulated and regulators are diligent about keeping bad actors from having any involvement with the industry.
Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.