Lori Lightfoot Quotes

Lori Lightfoot

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 4, 1962

I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.

Lori Lightfoot

It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid of the 'us versus them,' the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you're a campaign donor.

Lori Lightfoot

You know, I'm a former federal prosecutor. Before ICE was ICE, I did a lot of cases with Customs Enforcement.

Lori Lightfoot

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.

Lori Lightfoot

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

Lori Lightfoot

There's things that you can learn by being in the room with people that's different than talking to them over the phone or reading a policy paper.

Lori Lightfoot

I think he's a great talent, Stephen Colbert.

Lori Lightfoot

Our kids' lives depend upon keeping them safe. That has to be a fundamental duty and responsibility for me as mayor. That means we have to continue hard but necessary work of bridging the divide between police and communities they serve.

Lori Lightfoot

Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything I can to make sure every kid - in every neighborhood regardless of zip code, economic status and race or ethnicity - is able to live a life of safety.

Lori Lightfoot

I am an independent reform candidate. I do not represent the past.

Lori Lightfoot

I am not tied to the broken political machine, and I did not aspire to climb the ranks of the Cook County Democratic Party to be the party boss.

Lori Lightfoot

I'm not affiliated with Ed Burke, Joe Berrios or anyone else who represents the old, corrupt Chicago way. I am offering voters a complete break from that past and pushing us forward in a way that brings people together and makes government more inclusive.

Lori Lightfoot

We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn't determine your destiny.

Lori Lightfoot

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

Lori Lightfoot

It's not enough to be anti-Trump.

Lori Lightfoot

There's significant movement as far to the left in our party as far as you can go, where people are trying to out-Bernie Bernie.

Lori Lightfoot

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

Lori Lightfoot

I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults lie. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults are bullies. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when an adult says something that's not true just to try to score political points.

Lori Lightfoot

If you look at the number of aldermen who have been prosecuted and found liable of federal crimes over the years... the common thread among all of them is doing something in the exercise of aldermanic prerogative or privilege.

Lori Lightfoot

I am a lesbian. I am married to a woman. We have a child. We have a family.

Lori Lightfoot