Rahm Emanuel Quotes

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• Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.
• We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
• And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.
• You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
• 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…
• I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
• You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor,
• Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'
• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
• The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.
• Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.
• We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.
• You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could…
• As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's…
• I wake up some mornings hating me too.
• 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…
• There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the…
• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

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