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

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 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.

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.

Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?

The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever, ' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.

Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three Sentences together."

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.