American - Politician | June 29, 1957 -
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.
Michael Nutter
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Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
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To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.
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Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down.
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Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.
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I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.
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Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level.
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I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
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Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.
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Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.
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For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.
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You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don't know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.
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