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"If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions."
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"I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life."
Life
"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."
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"Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength."
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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."
Government
"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
Nation
"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."
People
"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
Government
"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."
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"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."
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