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.

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

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

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.

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

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.