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

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.

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.

If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else.

Society says that to free a man from his demons you have to lock him in a cage

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.