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"The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions."
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"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."

"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."

"We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work."

"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."

"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."

"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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