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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.
We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.
Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.
And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.
[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'
We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.
When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.
Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.
We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.
No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
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.
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.
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?
Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.
Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.
Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every election is different, every context is different. I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president Bill Clinton was important.
When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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.
We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.