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"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."
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"L.A. is my American city."
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"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
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"Edinburgh is alive with words."
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"London is the clearing-house of the world."
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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"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."
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"Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude."
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"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night."
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"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
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"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."
Government
"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."
Business
"We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past."
Past
"If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay."
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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
Performance
"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago."
Governance
"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."
City
"Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength."
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"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
Nation
"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
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