Tag: Rahm Emanuel
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
Rahm Emanuel
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There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
Rahm Emanuel
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say – and I don’t agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here – If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
Rahm Emanuel
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
Rahm Emanuel
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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?
Rahm Emanuel
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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.
Rahm Emanuel
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When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.
Rahm Emanuel
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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.
Rahm Emanuel
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton’s run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, ‘Well, I think he’s going to be the next President of the United States.’
Rahm Emanuel
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Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
Rahm Emanuel