Richard M. Daley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.
-- Richard M. Daley

#Cutting #Community #Library
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
-- Richard M. Daley

#Family #Done #Phases
Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
-- Richard M. Daley

#Country #Business #Agency
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
-- Richard M. Daley

#Government #Cities #States
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.
-- Richard M. Daley

#Business #Phones #Community
I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
-- Richard M. Daley

#Fighting #Former #Collars
The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.
-- Richard M. Daley

#Killing #Havoc #Homicide
We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.
-- Richard M. Daley

#Travel #Airports #Needs

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
You see, Hansel and Gretel donâ€™t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought youâ€™d like to know.
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Richard M. Daley famous quotes

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