Rahm Emanuel Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Rahm Emanuel Quotes and Sayings
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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.
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Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.
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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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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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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.
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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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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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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?
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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.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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