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| Nixon -- "I am not a crook" |
Whenever a politician begins by saying something like
Richard Nixon did -- "I am not a crook", you immediately know that they are crooked. When
Rahm Emanuel begins his
Sun-Times interview with
Fran Spielman by saying, "I don't want to be a phony..." well, you get my point.
I mean, how's this for phony?
"Trust me, I don’t want to close schools."
"I have a lot [union] support..." “It’s not that I’m polarizing [or]…not polarizing.'
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| "I don't want to be a phony" |
"CTA never had any of the problems that other mass transit systems had — not just here, but around the country."
"And our streets were plowed and passable — not just for police and fire, but for everybody."
"Bruce [Rauner] and I are friends, [but I] totally disagree with him 100 percent on policy...He didn’t help me. We worked on a transaction together. We
