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Richard J. Daley Quotes

d. 1976

Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953 until his death. He has been called "the last of the big city bosses" who controlled and mobilized American cities.

Politicians

Also known as: Daley, Richard J.

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If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy mother-fucker, go home.

Good government is good politics and politics is good government.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. One betrayed him, one denied him and one doubted him.

The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

I have conferred with the superintendent of police this morning and I gave him instructions that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard J. Daley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.