Rahm Emanuel

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.

Do I take on failure?

Damn right, because I'm a lucky guy.

I grew up in a family, an immigrant family, that had love and education.

The question is, are you willing to sit there and husband your political capital or spend it and take it on?

So nobody who's walked in the arena with me did not walk out without having a broken nose.

More than willing to say that.

And if you want just generational change, I'm not.

You want somebody that knows how to take on a fight and win?

That's a different battle.