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"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."
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"If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay."
Will

"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
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 must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work."
Work

"The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions."
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"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."
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"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
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"I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago."
People

"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."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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