We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That’s what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it’s a metropolitan area. I’ve said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it’s the state’s problem. It’s also the federal government’s problem. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates’ philosophy, and I think it’s a different time and a different generation. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don’t build that today, there’s nothing. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That’s what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There’s where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge. Richard M. Daley Read Quote
