Rahm Emanuel Quotes
Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
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You Ministers go on shuffling the old cards till they are so worn out and dirty that one can hardly tell the pips on them.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
