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"In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now."
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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Personal Development
"The value of time is immeasurable."
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Personal Development
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."
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Personal Development
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."
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"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed."
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"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."
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"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses."
Travel
"Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?"
Government
"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."
Government
"I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway."
Fight
"I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem."
Government
"I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down."
Car
"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."
Time
"It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago."
Politics
"Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city."
Business
"That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems."
Development
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