Rahm Emanuel

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Tiger Sisters · The Real Rules of Power in America (How to Use Them) with Rahm Emanuel · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

Well, there's two things I think that are important.

One, on the top level,

I do think a president sets a tone and a temper.

Temperament, rather, not temper.

Although sometimes you need that.

And how you act would be important.

So one, people you put in your cabinet and also throughout the administration should draw on the strengths of both parties.

Second, making sure that one of the things I've said before, but I think needs to reiterate, as it comes to social policy, don't send a piece of legislation unless it's bipartisan.

Won't sign it.

If it's even to my own party, let me relate it as an example.

I was the first presidential to a potential candidate.

I endorsed the Dignity Act, which is a reform of both our illegal immigration and our legal immigration.

And one of the reasons is it has 21 Republicans on it and 21 Democrats.

We've got to get past this issue.

It's true to being a nation of immigrants, and it's also true to being a nation of laws.

So setting that as a milestone, kind of a touchstone,

And then third, let me get to something both in and else.

I was actually thinking about it as I was this morning, looking at some things in the paper, and it reminds me of a bike trip I did.

So when I was done being mayor, I biked around Lake Michigan, 984 miles, 13 days.

And my joke was that I discovered in the process that the worse the cell phone service was, the nicer people were.

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