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Richard M. Daley Quotes

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Richard M. Daley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 24, 1942

Topics

Money Government City Why Without

A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.

Time Best Politics Problems Election

When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

Good Fun People You Can Do It Comedy

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

Red Guilty Squirrel Petty More Gray

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

Society Inevitable Ageing Youthful

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Freedom American Dream Me American

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

Mother Empathy People Me Growing Up

I have no feelings for the criminal. All my feelings lie with the victim.

Lie Feelings Victim Criminal

We have to do what I would call anomalies: we have to look for strange things that show up once in a while. They don't show up all the time. We have to be scanning the horizon, and doing that, once in a while something will show up that makes a lot of sense, and then you act on it.

Time Horizon Doing You Look Strange

I did a severe amount of plays in high school. I was in every single show that my drama club produced. Then in the summer I would do plays, and I was also playing sports. I was probably a hellish kid, come to think of it, for my parents' schedule. But then I went to college in North Carolina.

Sports School Parents College Think

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

Bryant H. McGill

People Reputation You Say Ability

I don't regret anything I haven't done.

Regret Done Anything

I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.

Thomas Heatherwick

Positive Mind Looking Start Better

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