Harold Washington/mayor of Chicago 1983%e2%80%931987

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    “The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life—this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    “Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.”
    —Dudley Nichols, U.S. screenwriter. Jean Renoir. Mayor (Thurston Hall)

    “Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)