Richard M. Daley quotes
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.
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.
And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.
Chicago is not separate or independent from the state of Illinois. We have major corporations here. Look at our business community.
First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.
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.
I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
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.
I firmly believe the federal government should be monitored. I believe in what Michael O'Malley' s doing in Hoffinan Estates.
I forgot to say that we will be the only city in the country, one of the few cities in the world, with two new airports: O'Hare and this one.
I have enough problems as mayor. I'm convinced now in the 1990s people don't look at elephants and donkeys; they look at candidates and philosophy. They want the job done.
I just enjoyed it, but I knew at the time that eventually I would make the decision whether I was going to be staying in public office or leaving it.
I mean in anything, whether it's politics or government or private sector. You don't tell your kids anything. I want [mine] to do anything they want.
I say what's good for the suburbs is good for the city, and what's good for the city is good for the suburbs. It's a two-way street here.
I think a lot of things you couldn't do immediately because you really have to know the operation, your contracts and your work rules. You have all these tilings, so you have to get to know them.
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