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"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."
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"Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most."
"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."
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"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."
"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."
"For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work."
"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."
"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."
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