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Rahm Emanuel
American
Politician
Born:
Nov 29
,
1959
People
Police
Think
Will
Work
You
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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.
Rahm Emanuel
You
Opportunity
Before
Think
Crisis
Could
Never
Go
Mean
Serious
Waste
Things
The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.
Rahm Emanuel
World
Law
Community
Think
Changed
Relationships
Our
Dramatically
Everything
Paperwork
Out
Law Enforcement
Narrative
How
Enforcement
Filling
Media
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.
Rahm Emanuel
Class
Strong
Strong Economy
Digging
John
John McCain
Put
Economy
George
George Bush
Depends
Middle
Middle Class
McCain
Hole
Bush
Plan
Shovel
Keep
There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
Rahm Emanuel
Good
Tired
Walk
Sick
Sick And Tired
Too
Corner
Way
Several
Out
Citizens
Having
Dealers
Leave
Blocks
Chicago
Senior
Senior Citizens
Just
Avoid
Who
Gangs
Many
Homes
Residents
Street
Street Corner
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?
Rahm Emanuel
Politics
Failure
Comforting
World
Mind
Tough
Security
More
Putting
New
Partisan
Majority
Partisan Politics
Because
Around
Pass
Enact
Terrorists
Foremost
America
Legislation
Aside
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
Negative
Group
Spending
Spent
Independent
Total
Plus
No Intention
About
Only
Attacked
Had
Until
Doing
Campaign
Up
Ended
Intention
Million
Ad
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
Rahm Emanuel
Hurt
Ability
Winning
Never
Been
Where
Anything
Place
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
Rahm Emanuel
Change
People
Big
Ideas
Big Ideas
Reform
American
Want
American People
The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
Rahm Emanuel
War
Better
Say
Fact
Failed
Policy
Jack
Than
Bush
Who
When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
Rahm Emanuel
Great
Me
People
House
Meant
Here
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
Rahm Emanuel
Me
Wake Up
Too
Hating
Some
Mornings
Wake
Up
In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
Rahm Emanuel
You
People
White
White House
Deliver
Points
Put
Catcher
House
Said
Govern
Were
Mound
Going
Pitcher
Board
Show
Show People
Position
There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
Rahm Emanuel
You
Hide
Run
District
Safe
Cannot
Republican
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.
Rahm Emanuel
Mine
Run
Would
City
Like
House
House Of Representatives
Always
Been
Chicago
Representatives
Mayor
Aspiration
Even
Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.
Rahm Emanuel
Today
You
Courage
Will
President
Kick
Kids
Obama
Stay
Able
Parent
Until
Policy
Because
Limit
Condition
Off
Deny
Hit
Cannot
Plan
Your
I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
Rahm Emanuel
Today
Home
Change
Tough
Building
Nation
Situation
President
Our
President Obama
Saw
Finally
Obama
Some
Troops
Delivered
Come
Make
Calls
Nation-Building
Iraq
America
Room
Fought
Believed
Here
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
Rahm Emanuel
Value
Security
Involving
Concern
Does
Geography
Israel
Did
Same
To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
Rahm Emanuel
You
President
Would
Angst
Through
Emotional
Deal
Go
Overriding
Mayor
Psychological
Professional
Gratification
My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
Rahm Emanuel
Attitude
Freedom
You
Change
Mind
Frame
Way
Say
Liberation
Run
Operate
Govern
Race
Your
Last
I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
Rahm Emanuel
Government
Financial
Problems
Strategy
Corners
Others
Approach
Our
Finances
City
Solve
See
Some
Economic
Economy
Within
Context
Leaving
Going
Taxes
Who
Growing
Rejected
Raising
Raising Taxes
Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
Rahm Emanuel
Broken
Reminder
Call
Lot
Wake-Up Call
McDonald
Us
Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
Rahm Emanuel
Law
Police
Gun
Back
Our
Introduced
Thousands
Weapons
Guns
Recovered
Police Department
Chicago
Handful
Accountable
Modeled
Department
Representative
Just
Stores
Hold
After
Bill
Flooding
Streets
When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
Rahm Emanuel
Me
Hate
Police
Car
Live
Our
Neighborhoods
Tell
More
Fact
Through
Beat
Driving
Most
Talk
Officers
Fewer
Just
In Fact
Want
Communities
Who
Gangs
Cops
Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
Leadership
Respect
Police
Path
Community
Every
Earn
Our
City
Johnson
Police Department
Chicago
Department
Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began. It remains the - the best and the most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence - and then breed mistrust. We have more work to do. We need better training to live up to the values and the principles of community policing.
Rahm Emanuel
Work
Best
Training
Better
Crime
Values
Community
Live
Changing
Everyday
Approach
Comprehensive
More
Remains
Idea
Most
Policing
Principles
Mistrust
Conditions
Chicago
Began
Up
Where
Then
Breed
Whole
Violence
Need
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.
Rahm Emanuel
Trust
Problem
Fear
Police
Parents
Corners
Say
Out
Tell
Does
Children
Them
Groups
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