Richard J. Daley

Attributed

• "Even the Lord had skeptical members of His Party."

• "Fuck you, you Jew motherfucker, go home!" -- To US Senator Abraham Ribicoff, seen, but not heard, on live television, during the 1968 Democratic Convention, transcribed by lip readers. (Contemporary defenders of Daley claimed he said "Faker.")

• "Good government is good politics."

• "I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders."

• "The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."

• "They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me."