Rahm Emanuel

You got to be good in the family room.

You better be good in the classroom.

You better know the boardroom, the break room, the situation room, and not just the bathroom, which is something we really get experts as a party.

Now, I also think also one piece of change with a party that's known as weak is

There's nothing, as you know, when it came to fighting the insurance companies to get 10 million kids health care, one person got that assignment.

When it came to making sure we got health care for people with pre-existing condition, one person had to lead that effort.

When it came to making sure we took on the financial industry and the banking industry to do fundamental reform, one person got that call to lead that effort and take on the gun lobby and the NRA.

Nobody's ever gotten in the ring with me, didn't walk out without a bloody nose.

Or a broken nose.

Ask the Republicans when they saw Nancy Pelosi become the first female speaker.

So I make no more.

And I will say this otherwise.

I don't need another title.

I got 20, yeah, I'll sell you one for cheap on eBay.

I got 20,000 kids that got free community college because I was willing to take on a failed system.

I got kids that used to have a 56% graduation rate, and 84% of them now graduate high school with a degree and college credit and have a mandatory letter of acceptance from either college, community college, branch of the armed forces, or vocational school.

98% of our kids in Chicago achieve that.

I took on a bureaucracy.

where we didn't have kindergarten or pre-K throughout the city.

And I made a Republican, finally increased the funding to the city of Chicago, which has been every mayor's desire, got something done that hadn't happened before.