“In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, reliev...” — Jane Byrne Quote

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

Whoever has a great idea, it doesn't matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as you can.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

We know how to build cross-disciplinary teams that are needed to take good ideas and make them great businesses. We're good at nurturing that kind of environment. And I do think that's something that's increasingly recognized in a lot of sectors in the economy.