I'm just here so I won't get fined.
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
I find that the kinds of music Im drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally. . obvious.
There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.
In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.