145 Quotes by Rahm Emanuel

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.

I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.

Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.

The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.