I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

Whatever you believe is true is true even if it is not true

Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.