Quote #8

I have conferred with the superintendent of police this morning and I gave him instructions that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a molotov cocktail in his hand.

More from Richard J. Daley

  1. I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
  2. There wasn't any shoot to kill order. That was a fabrication.
  3. Good government is good politics.
  4. They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
  5. Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy mother-fucker, go home.
  6. The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants.…
  7. Even the Lord had skeptical members of His Party.
  8. After all, I am a liberal myself.

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