Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Israel Emanuelis an American politician who serves as the 55th mayor of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel was elected in 2011, becoming Chicago's first Jewish mayor. He was reelected on April 7, 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 November 1959
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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We're at the very beginning stages of this, not at the end,
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Our voters, going into the midterm elections, are mobilized and energized; theirs are despondent, ... Virginia is a bright, bright red state - shining red.
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He has to get off his mountain bike and back to work.
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Will the division have an effect on the election of 2006? We'll know that pretty quickly.
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I think there's a lot of anger and we're gaining because of that. We could blow it. They can gain ground they've lost, but there's a big shift going on.
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Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.
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You could make progress on this in a New York minute, ... We're getting very close here.
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Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy or a key component or a leg on the stool, is an Afghan partner that is ready to take control of both the security situation in Afghanistan, and the civilian side of that.
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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.
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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.
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The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we've canceled basically our missile defense system undercutting the Czech Republic in Poland. We've I think not dealt with Iran with the kind of resolve that would show that we understand the nature of that threat.