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"We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past."
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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."

"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."

"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

"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."

"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."

"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."

"As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building."
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