When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Rahm EmanuelI think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. And different ethnic make-ups in those countries present different challenges.
Rahm EmanuelWhose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?
Rahm EmanuelAnd the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.
Rahm EmanuelThe moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.
Rahm Emanuel