"Why should a city be mandated to do……" — Richard M Daley
"Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?"
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33 Quotes by Richard M Daley
Richard M Daley has 33 quotes on this site.
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If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.
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I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase…
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Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all…
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So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We…
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I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
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First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are…
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I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just…
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It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.
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They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and…
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They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the…
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We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international…
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Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years…
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