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All Quotes Collection
"I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst."
45
"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."
42
"Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?"
48
"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."
44
"It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'"
39
"It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers."
44
"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago."
45
"If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips."
47
"In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however."
45
"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement."
67
"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
46
"The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world."
37
"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
66
"The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead."
40
"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
43
"We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past."
Past,
61
"The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason."
52
"We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work."
43
"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals."
35
"The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions."
42
"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."
35
"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
54
"If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city."
38
"Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline."
44
"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
43
"But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens."
44
"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."
56
"Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength."
41
"For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods."
Work,
51
"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
46
"If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works."
51
"I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago."
47
"I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago."
89
"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."
42
"As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building."
44
"I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement."
19
"The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy."
40
"That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement."
49
"Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace."
33
"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
38
"German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors."
47
"I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us."
41
"Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world."
40
"It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West."
38
"It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations."
37
"Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression."
42
"The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau."
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