Lori Lightfoot Quotes

Lori Lightfoot

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 4, 1962

If you really want to make a difference you don't do it via Tweet, via Facebook, via Instagram - you get down, you understand what the facts are and then you offer a path forward.

Lori Lightfoot

I have a wealth of experience, not only as a senior executive in different departments in the city, but I've also, in my private practice life, helped small businesses, middle-market businesses really try to navigate the sometimes difficult world of city government.

Lori Lightfoot

It's true that not every day a little black girl in a low-income family from a segregated steel town makes the runoff to be the mayor of the third-largest city in America.

Lori Lightfoot

When I was in my 20s and kind of going through my own coming out process, I feared that I would lose my family. I feared that I would grow old alone. And that was a real part of my struggle.

Lori Lightfoot

Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that's humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.

Lori Lightfoot

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

Lori Lightfoot

Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the few, not the many.

Lori Lightfoot

When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.

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Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

Lori Lightfoot

I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I felt like an outsider, and since I didn't know of LGBT people - much less LGBT black women - living happy, healthy, and successful lives, I didn't believe I could ever marry or have a child.

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When I came out, it wasn't a big formal conversation like in the movies. I just started living as my true and authentic self and opened up my life to my parents - sharing who I was, and bringing a girlfriend when I came home for a visit. To my great surprise, my parents accepted me for who I was and have supported me since.

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Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

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Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

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I think of being the mayor of a big city with so many incredible things happening - but also so many challenges and opportunities - as really being kind of the chief advocate for the people.

Lori Lightfoot

When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids 'duck and cover' long before they learn their ABC's or their colors, I know there is something profoundly wrong in our city.

Lori Lightfoot

You're never going to catch me agreeing with anything that Bruce Rauner says, given the things he's done in this state, trying to pit the city of Chicago against the rest of Illinois - I'll never agree with anything Bruce Rauner says.

Lori Lightfoot

Obviously, I believe that Rahm Emanuel's leadership has failed. Obviously, I believe we need change.

Lori Lightfoot

What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.

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