Rahm Emanuel Quotes

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

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• The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

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• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.

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• The American people… want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

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• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher’s mound or you can be in the catcher’s position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

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• We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message – get the job done.

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• Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

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• They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about – not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

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• There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

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• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked ‘a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America’s security foremost in mind?

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• When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set

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• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

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• When people told me ‘It’s great to be here’, they meant at the house, not with me.

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Rahm Emanuel (33)

Birth:	29th November, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Mayor, Politician

About

Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician and the current Mayor of Chicago. He previously served as the White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2010, a Member of the United States House of Representatives representing Illinois's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2009, and as senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1998. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel also served as the Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from 2005 to 2007 as well as the Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2007 to 2009.

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