145 Quotes by Rahm Emanuel

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, ‘I’ve got your back.’

We’re proud of the work we’re doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing’s more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults – and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

Everybody knows they’re on the Obama team: There isn’t vice presidential vs. presidential division, there’s not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

And it’s time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we’ve canceled basically our missile defense system undercutting the Czech Republic in Poland. We’ve I think not dealt with Iran with the kind of resolve that would show that we understand the nature of that threat.

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.

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.

The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

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.