Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

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

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

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

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

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

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.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

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.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Don't only dream it, live in it.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

God does not require from you empty words or idle conversations

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

I always want to look unattractive, it's more fun. I like playing opposites, people who aren't attractive who think they are pretty. That's always interesting to me.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.