145 Quotes by Rahm Emanuel

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.

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.

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

We're getting at best an impressionistic sense of what's going on in the economy. Major policy decisions are being made based on data that is inadequate to the task.

When the Speaker's gavel comes down, it's intended to open the People's House, and lately it's looking like the Auction House, ... Whether it's an energy bill that gives more $8 billion to the oil and gas interests while oil's at $64 a barrel, whether it's a corporate tax bill solving a $5 billion problem with a $150 billion solution, whether it's a pharmaceutical, prescription drug bill where the industry gave $132 million and walked away with $135 billion in additional profits.

If they think they can go forward as if nothing's changed, they do not understand what the rest of America has witnessed over the past week.

He has to get off his mountain bike and back to work.