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You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 29
Entrepreneur
Mayor Of Chicago
Military Personnel
Politician
Strategist
Chicago
Illinois
Rahm Israel Emanuel
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have a Sons of Iraq here. We don't have the same divisions here that we had between Sunni and Shia.
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Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.
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I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
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We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.
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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.
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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
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Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.
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I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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I think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. And different ethnic make-ups in those countries present different challenges.
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Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.
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Republicans are 'bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.'
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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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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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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