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Rahm Emanuel

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first: 2018-12-09
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“The good news is we'll be able to ride. Yeah, it's been a great ride. And I'm David. Somebody says, oh, you feel Burt? First of all, I never thought this job was a Burton. I always thought it was a gift. I am the son of an immigrant that's been in the White House twice, Congress and the Mayor of the third largest city. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are 300 people saying things about me, my family, the kids, and everything. In politics, you have to know Why you're doing what you're doing and then be tough enough and ruthless enough to get it done. It did take a lot of oomph every day when you're getting beaten down not wanting to fail. And you're one of... Incredible love of a wife. Knowing that what you're doing is what you think is the right thing. Spiritual leaders who help you. Keep And that gives you Moral jumper cables to keep going. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's the right. If you think it's the right thing to do, it's worth doing.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's because anytime I have a major thing, I can't sleep. And I go, well, I've never felt more right about what I'm doing. Not that I didn't feel right about the other things, but this was mine. And, you know, then I opened the door and I go out. And so you and I have talked to you.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I don't mean to tell stories, so I'll tell you, but I will tell you another story. It was like the third or fourth day of a teacher strike. And this is early in my term and it was over a full school day and a full school year Yeah, the kids in Chicago had the shortest school day in America. 7,000 school districts were last. And outside the front door of the house between my front door and getting in the car is 30 feet and about 300 my most closest friends now yelling at me I'm about to walk out and Amy looks at me and goes, you know, I've seen you through an impeachment, you've seen you through healthcare, I've seen you through the assault weapon ban, I've seen you through the balanced budget agreement. I've never seen a commercial.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, that's a fair question. I don't know the answer yet. My guess is first thing is I'm going to get, I know I'm talking about doing certain things in my life. I'll get that organized. I want to succeed at that first. I don't want to just go right to politics. I probably will, but I don't know.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“to figure out how to stay active civically without, I don't want to get in the way of my successor. He or she should have the right to be their mayor without a shadow of a former mayor.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If they ask, I may be interested if it has to be the right one. I'm not going to take any job in that effort, but there's a possibility. But, you know, when I walk out the door I'm obviously going to, Amy and I are going to live here. One of the things I've had on my list, so we'll do it in the first week, is I've always wanted to bike around Lake Michigan the whole 800-some odd miles, and so I'm going to go do that with a friend. But my goal is to stay here and be active in the civic life of the city that I love. I may not do, I will not do it as mayor, but I will do it as a citizen, and I think that's an important role too. And I got a, probably since you asked me honestly, the key is”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's going to be hard It's going to be hard. I mean, let me step back one second. You're my friend. I think whether it was moving a little rock. Leaving the Clinton White House deciding to run for Congress, deciding to take on different jobs in Congress, or then go to the Oval, and then leave the Oval, part of life is knowing when you've run your race, you've done the best, and also knowing when to leave. This will be hard. I make no bones about it because I love the people. I love the city and I'll continue to live here and continue that. I think missing the tempo. The things that you do in this job will take adjustment. If I didn't say that, I wasn't honest about the first part about how much I love it. But it's time for a transition and I'll do it.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's an added advantage in that area. I think you have, I think, former Governor McAuliffe is looking at it, Hinkenlooper is looking at it, but Governor Montana is looking at it. The governor of Washington state Bullock is looking at it. Governor J. Inslee ran the governors of Washington State. He's looking at it. We're going to have a lot of candidates. And I think the process will begin to shape a winner. And that's the only thing that processes can do.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Personally, I've obviously expressed my view. I think that's a, I don't want to own Washington as a party. I want Donald Trump to own all, if I can use one more Yiddish word, all the Mishigas of Washington. We're in the temple, so we are. I can use that. I don't want to, I don't think it's smart. Have him own what the dysfunction. Have him own the corruption.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I'm writing a book about I think 50 years ago mayors went to Washington and said, save us, we're burning. Today we go to Washington and say, let's save you because you're burning. And that tells you what's happening in cities. And not only that, more and more things that you assume the national government would do, cities, universities, foundations are taking it incumbent upon themselves to get it done because they have to. National government's not doing it. And that makes what cities, mayors and municipalities do all that more significant.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Done eight years in the Oval. I've been honored. I actually think this is an era of cities and stuff like that. I'm not interested in doing it.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, if you start naming names, and I know you want me to do that, then you're going to go, I've left somebody off, and once this airs, I'll get There's nothing like a process. So forget that I know politics been through four now presidentials. I actually, the process is the best predictor and it will produce. I actually think one of the things we had last time is we shortchanged the process of candidates. I think it's significant we have a bunch of healthy. I know where our successes have happened and where our failures have happened when you look back in retrospect. On the mayor all the field, you have Bloomberg and Garcetti. Mayors? Yeah, mayors, and I think that's interesting at this time in history that all of a sudden mayors are emerging as potential presidential contenders.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Middle child. You can't do that if you go seven and a half years with one gear. When you need to be, and just the other night, I was with two aldermen on something at different ways, forceful, direct. On the other hand, you could also cajole, entice, and on the other hand, if people are scared, that can also infer, as to quote Machiavelli, chapter 6. That's not a bad tool either. It just doesn't mean you put it in that gear all the time. You couldn't do it.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think there's some of it's real and some of it's affect it. You have one gear. I should probably say pointing to be successful in politics. Or, like, look, as a mayor, I've never lost a vote in city council. You can't have one”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I give Ari a lot of, Zeke and I talk about this and we talk about with Ari. Here you have a kid with learning disabilities, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, and he finds himself in a career that requires reading scripts. He would get up at 4, 3.30 in the morning. To read and be prepared for the day, and he had to get up three, four hours earlier than anybody, just so he could function in the day and know his material. And that takes a lot of discipline and a lot of focus and a lot of fear of failure. Be that successful”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your show? Like, what have you done for the family? You haven't done anything. You've embarrassed the family. How come there's nothing about you? And he would obviously, as the firstborn of a Jewish family, very special, then take a lot of comfort. Now Ta'ari.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, two things. One is, um... When there was the West Wing Show and Entoura Chan, one character in West Wing being based on me, one on Entourageon. The Josh Lyman character. Right. So we used to say to Zeke”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exceeding because you cannot be frivolous to what the sacrifice and struggle your parents went through. So we can joke about our family, and it's worth joking about. We all talk about it. Sometimes I say I lost this finger at my family. Hold your hand.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know. I know you are. No, I mean, but you know what? And I also think a lot of people talk about my parents or what did your mother do? First of all, they both did it. My grandparents did it. The other thing it was also being a family of immigrants and a grand. And I mean by that is immigrants have a certain edge because of the sacrifice and struggle. You gave up things where you knew you gave up family. You gave up relationships, the known for the unknown. And the kids of immigrants, released ours, and I think I see it with a lot of frequency as mayor, you are not allowed to be frivolous with that. You're not allowed All the things that people didn't, you know, I run into families all the time where somebody was trained as a doctor, is now a taxi driver. Their children...”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You couldn't come to the table or you couldn't talk if you had not read the paper or listened to the news. And I would say yes, Excel, but there was one other thing was you would never bring shame to the family, which meant to fail. So yes, you were expected to exceed Excel, your mark in life, but you could not bring change to the family by having failed.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was a more hungry dance, yeah. Two things. First of all, let's reset the table. For three years, grandma and grandpa, my mother's lived with us, so they're at the table. And I actually think this is really important for kids. For another eight years, my father's mother, because he was the only son and he was the only one left behind, she lived with us, left Israel, came back to goes back. So there wasn't a nuclear family for my whole childhood. That said, we were expected to excel. You had to have known the news and current events to participate. You were not allowed to participate if you hadn't read a paper.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They haven't had a savior financial crisis. And it's not because of their capacity. And I just will say to you, it's not functioning, and it's actually, but it's a reflection. That is how he wants it. He doesn't want anybody else running the day-to-day”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I don't think it's working. How can you come out of a meeting with China, have seven different interpretations? And I'm not talking about what the Chinese said. I'm talking about our time. Okay, it's not working. And this is back to something we talked about earlier, David. Any other president, and I count Bush 43 in this, Bush 41, they would be at 55 or better with this economy. He is at 45 because of this White House, and this White House, as the old Italian says, the fish rots from the head down. They walked out of there, one administrator, one person said, this is what's said. He said one thing. Somebody else said everything. It's not functioning. They're lucky they haven't had a real challenge yet. And I would say to you is that there is no cohesion. There's nobody. That”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they're doing something we didn't do. I mean, if you take the Lewinsky one, forget the travel officer or anything like that, we actually. Cordoned it off, isolated it so that the president could go to work. And we said that. This president's decided to immerse himself in the investigation, the scandal, and not do a degree of separation and say, I'm not going to let that affect the business that the people elected me. I think that's going to come back and they're going to rule the day they didn't do that. Totally. I can be wrong. Maybe I don't understand this, but I think they're making a big mistake.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So to be on the sidelines has its own dimension that's got to be heart. That said, You know, I talk to them regularly. I still consider him a friend and a reintellectual and political resource. But, you know, you said the best I've ever seen. It is read about others, meaning Roosevelt and Kennedy. I don't think you can make it to the Oval Office. Without being a good politician, and whatever you want to say, I have my disagreements and violent disagreements with this president. He was a better politician than Hillary was. And I don't agree with that.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I haven't talked to them, so it's not fair, but I know a woman, I would say that probably has its own pain. He is a great, one, he's a great politician. He loves, I hate using this word, but he loves the sports of politics. And he's competitive.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He dealt with it that way. I would probably swim, you know me, I would probably swim another half mile on top of the miles. So he dealt with it that way, and that's how he dealt with it. But he could go at an eating and not miss a beat.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was pre New Hampshire. They would just leave it there. I think it was around the draft letter. Now he's off in New Hampshire, came back for a weekend, and we were at the mansion on the night, and they made a big bowl of tuna fish, a tuna fish. There was a loaf of bread put out. some mayonnaise. And it was on the counter near in the kitchen. I don't know. He must have made like eight sandwiches without missing them. And then, like, by the stick, you're just kind of like, and he”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, let me just say this. That's what made him a good, I will never forget this. There was a particular point, we're down in the campaign. He's”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's multilingual. Bill Clinton can go into a boardroom and be in a Baptist church in the afternoon and not miss a beat or a translation problem. And I do think part of politicians, at least for a leader Able to be able to communicate with different groups of people but give them a vision and understanding and not get lost in that translation. Some people that are in public life are one-dimensional and I mean that in their capacity in the same way I would you know and so I would say the best all around politician from speaker to policy to politics to retail wholesale I would say Bill Clinton used to be pretty good”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, in Chicago is unique because I really... There are 140 languages spoken in our public schools. People from every walk of life, every part of the city, who have a kind of Chicago swagger. And some people say they wear it on their sleeve, but... I mean, they're down to earth. They're grounded. They got two feet well planted. And they're not scared to tell you what they think of you. Both on the positive and right to your face what they think of the negative. And that's not in... DC, New York LA There's the subtleties. We don't have subtleties here in Chicago. We have in your face. If I walk around, I'll get people to tell me what is on their mind.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Different ways of doing things, but they were both very competitive, very tenacious people that I've been honored to ask to serve.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, I finish all my calls. Here's what it is. And he goes, give me some more names. And now the vote is tomorrow or two days from then. And I said, Mr. President, it's 2.30 in the morning. You can't do that. I said, he goes, no, I'm ready to call it. And Amy rolls over and goes, who is that? And I go, it's the president. She goes, she thought it was one conversation. We were stuck. She goes, tell him to go to bed. President Obama would no more AS the names from members call you at 230 in the morning and think that you could call other people at 2.30. President Clinton, it's 2.30. I'm in the middle of my workday and he would be calling all the way. Now, President, stylistically, et cetera, President Obama, if it's an 8.30 meeting, he's in the office at 825. If it's an 8.30 meeting, President Clinton, whatever, because he had been up till 2.30, 33 o'clock in the morning, calling members, chit chatting, going over stuff. They had different styles and different areas.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“President Clinton called at 10 o'clock. You get the White House operator that says, Mr. Manuel, yes, the president would like to speak to you and you kind of sit up. I'm talking. And Amy goes, who is that? He goes, that's the president. And we're going over votes to get. She had fallen asleep in the middle of the conversation. 2 30 in the morning Phone rings. I'm sleeping on the side of the bed where the phone is. And it's a White House operator at 2.30 in the morning, President Clinton, and he says”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Coins that are military, there were books that he was reading. There were folders that was, and if you knew him, there was actually an order underneath Now, give you another example. You know my workout habits. I'm up quite early in the morning, et cetera. President Obama, all of them called no matter what. Fast forward, some Shabbat president Obama called about what we need to do on certain financial stuff. It was on a Friday night our Shabbat Sabbath dinner at home and he said, I apologize, but it was like at 9.30. And he says, you know, I'm about to go to bed or 10 o'clock, et cetera. When we were passing the assault weapon ban in 90”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have a picture of the first meeting with President Obama the first time. He's sitting at his oval office. The desk is clean, the fire is going, and we're talking. There's nothing on the desk, it's the first day. I have a picture three years later. There's nothing on the desk. And he was unbelievably meticulous. And I have his tattoo list that he gave me as my gift from 2010 that had domestic, administrative, foreign extras. I have pictures of President Clinton on his desk right after we had done the assault weapon ban and I think I forgot what other legislation it was. And it looks like just kind of looks like your death, David. Chaos everywhere. But if you looked at President Clinton, there was actually pens.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They were, well, I had different roles. I would just say I have a picture in my office. I have a number of pictures, but there's two or three of President Clinton and two or three of President Obama. And I tell the story of their styles more style than substance. They both have the same aspirations for America governing in different times.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not one of my things. Well, here's the thing, they're totally different and very similar. They're both very competitive on the similarity. They show it in different ways. One is a person from a place called Hope. One wrote about the audacity of Hope. Both ran as outsiders. Both challenged the system as is. Neither one was supposed to be our nominee to the presidency. And neither one was supposed to get real.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Two things. One is I want to clear the record I said A, financial reform before healthcare, and healthcare should be targeted because there have been a lot of different attempts. Not that you shouldn't do it, but more targeted because you're also going to waste a lot of time and you had Supreme Court, you had climate change, all the things he wanted to deal with. That said, what also played out in this election wasn't just Obamacare, it was cost control. And I am a big advocate of a lot of the piece of healthcare reform that dealt with coverage is being dealt with, and it did turn into finally a political asset rather than a liability. But also a lot of candidates, if you look at the ads, dealt with cost control. Well, it's existing.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why David, you remember this? I said after both the stimulus bill and financial lifeline of both of those 800 billion dollars, we should do Old Testament justice. Said it then, which was financial reform, reform of the banking system. People needed the sense that the people that were getting bailed out and access to their wallet needed to be held accountable. And it cost no money. And it would have been bipartisan. And a lot of things would have gotten done politically to put a band-aid over if something that was bleeding and our political system, we never brought a banker to trial. The financial reform looked like in the end of the day, banks won. And in the end of the day, we're in the middle of middle class revolt because they felt like the guys at the top who got taken care of and at the bottom never got held accountable. And they don't think there's accountability. And I said that then even though...”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Policies that were put in place were good policies, horrible policies. And a lot of that politics were still rumbling through our system today because the people at the very top and the people at the very bottom, the middle class felt are getting taken care of.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It would be President-elect, one president, President-elect, and he was explaining to me Josh Boltman brought me in. Now you had lunch. He said, I want to tell you what we're going to do. You got six weeks. That's it. GM and Chrysler are going belly up. Ford had some cash to work on. But the basic industrial base of America was going to shut down. That became an issue because of what we did, what Romney said it should go belly up and let it go. President Obama took a different course. You look at the financial sector. I believed after we, if you really look back at the last 15 years.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Other presidents had a deal with Chrysler. This president had to deal with the entire auto industry. Other presidents had a short-term 11-month recession. He had to deal with the greatest recession that was now bordering for a period of time on a depression. Any one of those elements would have defined a presidency. He had to deal with all of it simultaneously. And FAR is one word, but there was basically, like I remember going into President Bush, 43, his office, where he explained to me, okay, I'm going to give $20 billion to the auto industry. This is six weeks of cash burn rate.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I always said this we were not in a great recession there was six months we were in a small deep depression and what we had to do was both obviously get resources into the economy and then also restore confidence in both the government and the economy and what and I take everybody back One because you are interviewing me just in the shadows of President Bush Langen State, he had a deal with the savings and loan industry. President Obama had a deal with the entire financial sector.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm going to finish one thing. Not only did I have to walk away from that, I had to leave my family behind. And the good news is our kids are great. And mainly Amy has done a tremendous job getting the kid through both a mayoralty, a chief of staff of Congress without it being a negative.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have to say yes. Yeah, and I don't want to say yes. And I knew that I was because of Grandpa, you only get to say yes or yes sir to the President of the United States. Two things. One, My career where I wanted to be, what I wanted to do was on a trajectory and I worked very hard as a chairman of the DRC's caucus chair to secure that. Amy and I and the kids had a life that balanced what I was interested in without any way adversely affecting Zechariah, Alana, and Lea. And that, you know, as my friend is really, and I found a balance and also a way to have our home, a Jewish home, and our kids educated in Chicago. Without it, my work in any way challenging”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't. I'm honored. I did it. I talked as, you know, as I said to Zeke, grandpa would say if the president asks you. It's yes or yes, sir, and you got to figure out which of those two answers you get to give. Here's the thing, David.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Failing? I don't know. I got two brothers that equally hate failing, equal to me Yeah, I don't like failing, but I actually learn a lot from it, and I have made plenty of mistakes in this job as mayor. I've made plenty of mistakes as chief of staff, and I try to study it. I don't like doing it. Do you know anybody that likes failing David? That's not like another. You're allergic to it.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The gumption to say what I said, which is only one person I can fire me, this person of the United States. And I would have, as a chief of staff, I would have fired somebody if I said that or said something else. And then Bill Clinton said, okay, I'm going to give you a special project. And I did the assault weapon band, the Brady Bill, a couple other things, NAFTA for President Clinton, and the $100,000 community police officers and worked my way up to being senior advisor. I mean, you, other people, Bill Daly, all said, come home, forget about it. It's over. And I said, no, this is what I wanted to do in my life, and I'm not going to just walk out like that. And failing, I say this in commencement justice, I believe this, failing is going to be where you learn the most of what you got to do to make the changes you need to be successful.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source