Richard M. Daley Quotes

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

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.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

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.

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.

The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

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.