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"First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time."

"I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting."

"You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing."

"I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four."

"We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things."

"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back."

"My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses."

"People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before."

"And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation."

"They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different."
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