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Good government is good politics.
A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.
Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President.
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.
Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party.
We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.
If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.
The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.
The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.
I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.
In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.
The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.
They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
They have vilified me, they have crucified me - yes, they have even criticized me!
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.
If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.
The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.
And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.