Richard M. Daley Quotes
So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
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So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
