Administration Quote by Rick Perlstein

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the…

— Thomas Frank

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago…

— Jane Byrne

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes.…

— Kenneth Baker

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

— Bethany McLean

Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move…

— Jay Leno

[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor…

— Mark Shields

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather,…

— James Roosevelt

Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and…

— Lori Lightfoot

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

— Lori Lightfoot

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But…

— Vaclav Klaus

Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that…

— Jerry Reinsdorf

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

— Christie Hefner