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I think that has given our allies confidence, like Japan, to increase the defense budget, to be more active on the diplomatic arena and stage.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
There’s a phrase in America, you’re known by the company you keep.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
To me the test of leadership is to be idealistic enough to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. And then tough enough to get it done.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
They’ve come together to realize that (Chinese aggression) can’t continue as is, so every country is taking steps, both within an alliance (and) also within their own self-interest of creating a comprehensive coalition of deterrence. That’s what’s going on.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
You look at India, you look at the Philippines, you look at Australia, you look at the United States, Canada or Japan. They (China) have had in just the last three months a military or some type of confrontation with every country. And then they’re shocked that countries are taking their own steps for deterrence to protect themselves. What did they think they were going to do?
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I do think that both leaders showed a braveness and a boldness to look to the 21st century and make the most of that rather than being tied by 20th century, to me the test of leadership is to be idealistic enough to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. And then tough enough to get it done.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
This issue is not going to happen, and it is not the way you argue healthcare.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
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.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a whitewash of justice, from top to bottom, this is not on the level.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There has been in the last 100 years, seven attempts to make changes to the police department.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Eight years of this would be something I'm not sure how long it would take for America to recoup — or recover from.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
All of us know that this is not Chicago, what we saw, we are better than what we saw.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The state’s $ 174 million investment in infrastructure improvements near the Obama Center on the South Side of Chicago is money well spent.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Everybody does it, and then everybody’s irritated when somebody else does it, so my total view is I want to look at it.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Chicago will not let our residents have their fundamental rights ... violated.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We are not going to be between picking our values of who we are as a welcoming city, and strengthening our police department.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Regardless, let me be clear : Chicago's values and Chicago's future are not for sale.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I want to make very clear, we are going to stay a sanctuary city.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We cannot afford to lose another generation to the gangs and to the streets and to the guns and to the violence.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Superintendent McCarthy knows that a police officer is only as effective as when he has the trust of those he serves.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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