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Rahm Israel Emanuel (/?r??m/; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician who serves as the 55th Mayor of Chicago.

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This was Bernie's idea, and now she owns the idea, this issue is not going to happen, and it is not the way you argue healthcare.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

This issue is not going to happen, and it is not the way you argue healthcare.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

We have seen this movie before. Democrats need to wake up, i would not treat the Barack Obama years as something to be airbrushed out of history. Every one of these things needs to be built upon.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Everybody has got to be kidding me here, you have a perfect set up. Donald Trump is suing to undue it. We won an election on it. I don't get this.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

When I came on this job, I came on with my honor, my integrity, and my reputation, if someone accused me of doing anything that would circumvent that then I would want my day in court to clear my name.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The only reason that Jussie Smollett thought Jussie Smollett could get away with this hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment President Trump created.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The state's attorney's office is saying he's not exonerated, he actually did commit this hoax, he's saying he's innocent and his words are true. They better get their stories straight, because this is making fools of all us.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

This is a whitewash of justice, from top to bottom, this is not on the level.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I am trying to look for history to draw lessons. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama — all younger than age 50, all from outside of Washington. ... My general rule is that has worked for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the last thing I think we need is a nominee who owns Washington.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

My point was about the party, what party takes a person who led the party to the greatest wins in The House since the Watergate and says,' We are going to cut your knees off,' and then says,' We want to nominate somebody who didn't win' ? The House wasn't about him. I admire what he did. The House's about our party that I don't admire.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I have said and I have declared that Chicago will be a Trump-free zone. And I stand by that because I think the policies that he has advocated are quite divisive, there has been in the last 100 years, seven attempts to make changes to the police department.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Don't focus immediately on President Donald Trump. ... You have something with the secretary of labor, you have with EPA, you have in the Interior Department, you have it at the Commerce Department, you have it at HUD. He has brought the swamp to Washington and flooded the plains, and I think Mueller will deal with President Donald Trump.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This President's decided to immerse This President in the investigation, the scandal, and not do a degree of separation... and say,' I'm not going to let that affect the business that the people elected me.' They're going to rue the day they didn't do that.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I think if the Republican Party stays as angry as President Donald Trump, as ugly as President Donald Trump, I think Read MoreLooking's a unique opportunity for the Democrats to actually open up and build a stronger, more stable coalition that not only wins gubernatorial races and The House races, but the ultimate prize, The House.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Eight years of this would be something I'm not sure how long it would take for America to recoup — or recover from.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

There has been in the last 100 years, seven attempts to make changes to the police department.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

All of us know that this is not Chicago -- what we saw, therefore, all of us who love this city and call it home have a responsibility to heal our neighborhoods.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 1 year ago US News

I want to commend McDonald’s and their independent franchisees for demonstrating what it means to be a good corporate citizen and for investing in Chicago’s next generation, chicago is proud to partner with McDonald’s to ramp up our workforce development efforts and help create more opportunities for young men and women across our great city.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Lifestyle

All of us know that this is not Chicago, what we saw, we are better than what we saw.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 1 year ago U.S.

Bringing The Center to Chicago took leadership and vision, and we are gratified that our partners in Springfield also saw the potential for what this means for all of Illinois.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

The state’s $ 174 million investment in infrastructure improvements near the Obama Center on the South Side of Chicago is money well spent.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Bringing the Obama Presidential Center to Chicago took leadership and vision, and we are gratified that our partners in Springfield also saw the potential for what this means for all of Illinois, the state’s $174 million investment in infrastructure improvements near the Obama Center on the South Side of Chicago is money well spent.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

Our mission is clear: we want to prevent carjackings and cars from being stolen to strengthen community safety, as a challenge facing communities across the state, we are seeking to use the laws better and more effectively to give victims a better chance to get justice in court.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

City Keys. when somebody says,' Can I see your driver’s license ?' -- what that unlocks and what that smooths out and all the speed bumps that literally get eliminated because you have a driver’s license.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

When somebody says,' Can I see your driver’s license ?' -- what that unlocks and what that smooths out and all the speed bumps that literally get eliminated because you have a driver’s license.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Everybody does it, and then everybody’s irritated when somebody else does it, so my total view is I want to look at it.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Chicago will not let our residents have their fundamental rights ... violated.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Chicago will not let our police officers become political pawns in a debate, chicago will not let our residents have their fundamental rights isolated and violated. And Chicago will never relinquish our status as a welcoming city.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values, and we are and will remain a welcoming city, the federal government should be working with cities to provide necessary resources to improve public safety, not concocting new schemes to reduce our crime-fighting resources.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

We are not going to be between picking our values of who we are as a welcoming city, and strengthening our police department.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Regardless, let me be clear : Chicago's values and Chicago's future are not for sale.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I want to make very clear, we are going to stay a sanctuary city.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Every one of us was sickened by the recent murder of Nykea Aldridge while she pushed a baby carriage down the street to register her kids, and what makes it even worse is that her murder might have been prevented if her alleged perpetrators had been given the sentence they deserve for previous crimes.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

Many crimes being committed are by young men with gang affiliations, to have any chance from killing each other and innocents, Chicago must provide an alternative for young men to join gangs.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

We cannot afford to lose another generation to the gangs and to the streets and to the guns and to the violence.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

While we’re going to add significant resources to our police department, no resource will match the resource of an officer knowing the neighborhood they work in supports their work.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

They need your reassurance and they need to know that they have to earn the public’s trust. They don’t get a blank check.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

We need to stop the revolving door for repeat gun offenders. These violent offenders must know that their punishment will match the seriousness of the crimes they committed and the value and the sanctity of the lives they have taken from their fellow family members.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

I go around this city. I see kids today, a look in their eyes, where the vitality, the hope and the purpose has been stolen from them because of the harshness of this city. It has been robbed from them and we cannot avert our eyes as a city any longer.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on FOX News 3 years ago U.S.

All of us -- whether we're black, whether we're Latino, whether we're white -- are tired of looking up at the TV and seeing videos of unarmed people, often minorities, being killed.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Superintendent McCarthy knows that a police officer is only as effective as when he has the trust of those he serves.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm responsible. I don't shirk that responsibility.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 4 years ago US News

I have a lot of loyalty to what he’s done and him, but I have more loyalty to the city of Chicago and its future.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 4 years ago US News

The shooting of Laquan McDonald requires more than just words, it requires that we act; that we take more concrete steps to prevent such abuses in the future, secure the safety and the rights of all Chicagoans, and build stronger bonds of trust between our police and the communities they're sworn to serve.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Expanding this successful program into one-third of the city will help enhance transparency and credibility as well as strengthen the fabric of trust that is vital between police and the community.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 4 years ago US News

I would say to you this agreement is a good agreement and it is far superior to either sustained bombing that would never actually get you what you have today or sanctions that would exist on paper but with no international support.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I want the technology to reduce traffic accidents so our police officers are free to fight crime, gangs and guns.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago US News

The Obama Library belongs in Chicago, and I remain committed to bringing the library to our great city.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

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