I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Here she is, ” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.”“Oh, cheers, ” Valkyrie said, rolling her eyes.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone.

Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.