"Good government is good politics."

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Source : "The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition". Book by Paul Michael Green, Melvin G. Holli, 1995.

Richard J. Daley

#Government Quotes #Political Quotes

“Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.”
“But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us, not free association. We repudiate forced fraternity, not true fraternity. We repudiate the artificial unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility. We do not repudiate the natural unity of mankind under Providence.”
“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.”
“Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.”
“If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.”
“The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, â€œthe Church which presides in charityâ€, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.”
“He that rises late must trot all day.”
“Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.”

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