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Mike Quigley

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  1. “Support and laws that protect equality for everyone in our country. But all that begins as we talked about on the local level. You can't think about it abstractly and be effective. You've got to think about this with folks that you care about. Think that's why Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Maddern. It wasn't an abstract issue anymore. You had Senators stand up and talk about the fact that they knew people who had fought and died or were critically injured defending our country, and don't they deserve the same rights as anyone? So I guess that was the motivation. Were you there? Just supporting the underground.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I think growing up in Carol Stream, I don't know if I met someone who was Right, LGBT community person who was out. It was a different world in a different time. I moved to Chicago and I'm working for Alderman Hansen from 1982 on, living in the community. Yeah, I guess the first thing is. You become friends And it's about understanding each other, acceptance, friendship, and then something stronger than that. It's a love with the community of people who are very, very kind to me when I first came to Chicago When the AIDS crisis hit, I lost a lot of friends. When it came to defending the community, it was very hard to watch those who would attack my friends, who I felt like were my family. And to this day, my family. It just seemed like a natural extension of loyalties within friends and family to provide some”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “I always tell people when I was a county commission, they said, What are you going to do next? And I said, I'm not wasting my time now. So no matter what this fashions for me in the future, whether it's hopefully to be a chairman of a committee perhaps, or to run for some other office, it affords me the opportunity to speak to the whole country on national TV, but also to accomplish things at the local level.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Out to O'Hare Airport. And I appreciate Mayor Emmanuel talking about the newest almost Star Trek way with Elon Musk of how to get people from downtown to airports. In the meantime, I want to get it rebuilt for people. The next 10 years”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I guess I still have one foot in both the universe, right? I love Washington, DC. The issues are extraordinary. I travel across the world on intelligence issues that will keep us safe and our allies safe. So, yes, I've learned there's a connection between local, state, federal, and international issues that you have to be involved with. And I'm torn is the answer. Because I love the fact that I serve on two critical committees, intelligence appropriations. I want to drive resources back to rebuild the blue line. At the same time, I want to be there when the blue line is.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “It's hard to, I was a Cook County commissioner for 10 years We reviewed as the leaders of the reform movement, but we also passed probably 50 ordinances there to make Cook County government more efficient. And we were constantly arguing about reinventing government, not because we don't like government, but because local government matters so much. You've got to love the forest preserves. And the fact that the court systems work and the jails work.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Really don't matter unless we see it working at the street level. So that cooperation across lines of government is extraordinarily important. And I respect the people who serve as aldermen because to them and their right, the one person whose electrical service and gas service has been shut off helping them deal with that issue, making sure that the SROs are open, single room occupancies, dealing with homeless people, and all the issues that we're struggling with across this country. They're the ones actually getting it done.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “The beauty of that time for me was I was going to the University of Chicago to get my master's in public policy, arguably the most theoretical place in the universe. And at the same time, I was trying to get Things done at the most practical level, and what it still teaches me today was that the most grandiose policy in the world doesn't matter unless it translates to effective service at the local level. Are the schools functioning, our kids learning? The numbers that we read about in DC.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “The quality of schools, whether people felt safe walking home from the train. That's a great lesson in life to appreciate this.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I think that Chicago politics by and large is an entirely different ballgame than it was certainly a generation ago, but I think even 10, 20 years, I think it's the city is being run increasingly in much more professional way. I think our elections are pretty darn clean. There are those in DC when I was seeking to get election security dollars spent, talking about protecting our elections. I had those who say, so you don't want the Russians to steal our votes, but it's okay if people in graveyards do. So I get to your point. Our reputation is still where it was a while ago. And I think that's unwarranted. I will say, though, that... I was working for Alderman Bernie Hanson in his service office. The calls that came in were about potholes, street lights.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Which has real cost. There is a balance here, and we have to decide what What's the value of human life? It's hard to express that sometimes. I think it's hard to message these issues right now. It's hard to get any bandwidth other than the stuff that's blaring out through tweets and so forth. It's hard to get people to understand what those statistics mean. I remember the Sierra Club years ago was trying to help people understand so they had a press conference about what ozone alerts mean for seniors and kids. And it got very little play. Then there was a story of a little girl on the northwest side with a respiratory illness, and they showed her watching kids play outside and she couldn't go. And that got played.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Yeah, I remind it's easy in a campaign and to talk to the public and say, we're rolling back the red tape and the regulations. We're getting rid of the bureaucrats who are in the way of the economy. This will mean dramatically increased morbidity and mortality rates across the country. I remind those who don't even, who will say that they don't believe in climate change. All right. Even if you don't believe in climate change, just remember that the pollution that creates climate change or precursors in large part to ozone, which increases morbidity and mortality for senior citizens, little kids, those with respiratory illnesses, it has created a real risk for all Americans.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “It's a very dangerous time on all fronts. It seems almost like a personal attack by the president, not just on environmental issues and interior issues. It seems to me that their goal is to dismantle everything done before, particularly if it was done by President Obama, emission standards, fleet efficiency, coal power plants, the regulations. Most recent attacks of the EPA is dramatically understaffed, that continues to be the case. The administration even refuses to spend dollars that Congress has allocated. So it's a tough time.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “I speak to EPA workers to this day in DC and in Chicago. I say, don't do what I did. Stay here and fight. We need you. We've got enough of a brain drain of natural retirees who came in during clean air and clean water act times. So EPA workers, please don't quit and protest, stay and do a great job in protest.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “History is repeating itself on many fronts. When they were kind enough later to try to find me a permanent job there, which I accepted, worked for a short term. And when I thought that they had changed our job to circumventing the Clean Air Act, I quit in protest to the horror of my parents who liked that I had a real job. And I took on running political campaigns from that point on.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “People say How important are teachers? Gary Williams, freshman biology teacher at Glenbar North High School, gave me a copy of Paul Erlick's book, The Population Bomb. And as Corney as it sounds, he said what I say to students all the time now. He said, don't let anyone tell you can't save the world. You can, and you have a moral responsibility to try. So that's what I wanted to do. My experience with the Salvation Army gave me further reason. So President Reagan is sworn in while I'm an intern, and I am fired because that was his first executive order.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “You go back to its history, it was formed because of problems with. Racism in other schools and the fact that the public wanted to create, they wanted to create a place where everyone was invited. And it was still to the date. And they got me an internship with the US EPA, Region 5.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Yeah. And Bobby Rush said something I wish I had thought of first. He said it so well. Roosevelt was a very special place to go, not just because of the education, but because of the students you were surrounded by He said, Roosevelt loved me before I loved Roosevelt. It was an amazing experience”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “There are stories I read later about Frank Untenmeier, a professor there, helping out students. I was in a position where I had to largely put myself through undergraduate graduate school and law school, and in a particularly difficult time for a whole lot of reasons I went to meet him about a paper I was writing and there was a reception had just been completed afterwards before I went to see him. So I went over there outside his office and I picked an apple off the table and went in to see him. Someone called to complain him that I had taken food and he said well maybe he was hungry. Have you been hungry? Starving college student, right? And while I sat there, he wrote me a check and said, pay me back when you can. Bobby Rush went there too. And years. Cong”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “And I went to Second City. And once you've seen Paris, who wants to go back to the country? But it's probably the single most important reason. I got involved in this business.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “It was a lodge for battered women, and we ran a day camp in the summer. So for the summer, this is why I got into politics. About half the kids were from the shelter, and about half the kids were from the neighborhood, most of them from Cabrini Green. So it was an eye-opening experience of what real world problems were, and I wanted to get into those. At the same time, I was 17 and I had a fake ID, and I snuck up to the Aragon ballroom and watched Spirit in concert.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “I was a school teacher, also born and raised in Indiana, and they came with, we came here in, I think, 1967. But Carol Stream is not a bad place to be from. In 1976, I got a job with the Salvation Army and a lodge for battered women. It was in old town back at a different time. Old town.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “In Indiana, and then we moved to Chicago when I was in second grade. So I grew up in Carol Stream, which is hard to imagine. How we get from a place to”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Right. I mentioned that story when. My appropriations committee was debating whether or not LGBTQ people should be allowed to adopt the notion that we should never deny a child a loving family. It strikes home from what was probably 1927. And so he was raised on a poor farm in central Indiana, never made it through high school. Went into the Korean conflict, was drafted, and they taught him radio technology. And they made my father, gave him opportunities. He would never have today, right? He didn't have a high school diploma. And he worked for the phone company for 35 years.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “And it's a fascinating story. It's an American story. My father was abandoned as a newborn and was in an orphanage. Adopted by a dirt-poor couple in Indiana who we got their adoption application. Not the most literate couple, but lovely. The application as a section that said, do you prefer a boy or a girl? And as I read the application out loud to my children, they started crying because the answer was just any child we can love.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “As I understand it during the potato famine, the Quigleys originally went to Canada and when they got tired of mining iron ore, they crossed the border illegally. So I suppose we were some of the original undocumented Americans.”

    2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source