“I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of so...” — Richard M. Daley Quote

“I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.”

“You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing.”

“And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.”

“Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.”

“For fifty years, debates about French anti-Semitism mainly revolved around France's record during the Second World War, when the Vichy government collaborated with the Germans.”

“In some egregious cases, cities built new stadiums even while their citizens were still paying off old stadiums that had since closed. This is corporate welfare run amok, and a gross misuse of American citizens' tax money - something the government must treat with respect.”