Lori Lightfoot Quotes

Lori Lightfoot

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 4, 1962

I am not opposed to video gambling as long as it is properly regulated and regulators are diligent about keeping bad actors from having any involvement with the industry.

Lori Lightfoot

I support a progressive state income tax.

Lori Lightfoot

If aldermen are doing their job right, they should be the ones who are closest to the vibe and the beat in their neighborhood and have a very important role to play on a number of different issues, but not a unilateral, unchecked right. That's gone as soon as I take office.

Lori Lightfoot

Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that's where I'm going to put a significant amount of input.

Lori Lightfoot

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.

Lori Lightfoot

Breaking the back of the Chicago machine, it's quite monumental.

Lori Lightfoot

Building channels for people to believe that the city sees them and hears them and is willing to invest, is going to be critically important, and we have to start that right away.

Lori Lightfoot

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

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We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.

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I want to make sure that I am the leader that respects the fact that kids all over the city and hopefully all over the country really understand that they can do anything that they want to do, that they set their minds to do, as long as they've got good, strong support from adults and love to support them.

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We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence.

Lori Lightfoot

Police can't be successful if they're not viewed as legitimate by the community, and a community will not be safe if the police are not engaged in a respectful, constitutional partnership with the community.

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I live in a world in which I have a very, very diverse group of friends.

Lori Lightfoot

To make blatant racial appeals or just blatant appeals only targeted to the LGBTQ+ community, I didn't think that that was a winning formula, and it's also inconsistent with who I am.

Lori Lightfoot

The whole circus surrounding Ed Burke, I knew immediately from my days as a federal prosecutor, was very, very serious.

Lori Lightfoot

You know, when you get the White House operator and they say, 'Just a moment for the president of the United States,' that's a pretty heady moment.

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We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.

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So, yes, I became the vessel into which people poured their hopes that we can have a different kind of city. I recognize that, but in politics, sometimes it's good to be lucky.

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I'm not a person who puts things out in writing and policy prescriptions and is not intending to follow through.

Lori Lightfoot

In Massillon, you either hated football, or you loved it. On a Friday night in the fall, I don't know what anybody did if they weren't at, quote-unquote, 'The Game.'

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