Affirmative action works but we’re going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Let’s not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn’t work.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

Our government will be moving forward as well, including more people and more kinds of people than any government in the history of Chicago.

Business as usual will not be accepted by the people of this city.

Business as usual will not be accepted by this chief executive of this great city.