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Rahm Israel Emanuel (/rɑːm/; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician, who is the 44th and current mayor of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel was elected in 2011, and re-elected on April 7, 2015.

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Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.

Life, Live, Losing, Survival, Want

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

Hate, Hating, Morning, Mornings, Wake, Wake Up

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

America, Come, Delivered, Home, Iraq, President

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Different, Federal, Law, Special, Tom

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

Achieve, Important, Judgment, Judgments, Thing, Thinking

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

Facts, Jack, Murtha, Policy, War

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

Book, Learn, People, Pick, Read, Thinking

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

100, Act, Country, Franklin, Negative, Recovery

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have a Sons of Iraq here. We don't have the same divisions here that we had between Sunni and Shia.

Afghanistan, Finely, Iraq, Son, Thinking, Tuned

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

Abuse, Acts, Culture, Officers, Permitting, Tiny

The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen as legitimate to the people and has the credibility to be a partner in the effort to secure Afghanistan so it's not a haven for al Qaeda or other type of terrorists or international terrorist organizations.

Afghan, Afghanistan, Decide, Government, Organization, Party

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

Come, Littles, Long, Way

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

Enemies, Enemy, Interests, Point, Safe Haven, Two

President Obama made the right choice, over 1 million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, "I've got your back''.

Choices, Million, Mitt, Ohio, President, Today

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 a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

Exchange, Kind, Pressure, Stories, Story, Would Be

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

Judgment, Land, Lands, Leadership, Office, White

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

Aspiration, Cities, House, Like, Representatives, Running

I hope President [Hamid] Karzai understands that our national security interests don't depend entirely on his decision there whether to allow a recount. Obviously the legitimacy of that government is an important component of it. My point is it shouldn't be the lynch pin for us deciding whether we're going to protect our national security interests in that region.

Decision, Government, Important, Pin, Understands

We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

Amazing, Cities, People, Play, Proud, Valuable

I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.

House, People, Proposal, Realize, Think, Thinking

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