"Well, Mayor Emanuel, it's a great honor to be here with you today. Um, I know you've been traveling the country promoting Chicago as a center for entrepreneurship, and many of the 400 plus GSB student..."

"Chicago and uh the Harvard Business Study Center is a classic study of what public sector private sector has happened and I and looking at across the students I would also say there was a study came o..."

"true both in theater entrepreneurship and obviously in politics as well. You mentioned education. It's a passion of yours. Yeah. What have what are you doing in Chicago to uh to help those who want to..."

"and that's the strength of this country and he and he just basically followed his dreams and allowed us. So I believe and I ran for mayor not just because I wanted to pay tribute to my grandfather but..."

"going on to a four-year institution and kids going on to community college. And trust me, the demographics of the city of Chicago is not the same as the United States. And we're the first city in the ..."

"prek, we're at 60% of our kids now get a full day prek. And we've been willing to take on failure, whether that's consolidation of schools, turning around schools. I do and I also don't see myself as ..."

"actually affect outcomes? Well, you know, you have to weigh equities. Okay? There's never um look, life is a series of trade-offs. Okay? That's not different in public policy, but you have to weigh as..."

"take to get to that goal line. So, um that's, I, don't know, that's, that's, the kind of way you try to think about it or as I used to say about Washington they're firm in their opinions. It's princip..."

"with politicians. Uh uh and one summer I volunteered uh for a cons interest group and I realized this is what I love and I my parents were very big about following your passion and I uh my mother but ..."

"immigrant, quit the AMA in 1962 over national healthcare with barely like five words of English, not exactly a way to build a practice. Uh, and led the campaign in Chicago to eliminate lead from house..."

"what I think my family voted. Uh let me give you one other uh uh story which I think is true for all of the boys. So in our family room on the wall was in the middle was a picture of my great my grand..."

"White House, President Clinton and President Obama. Um what was the worst day in the Clinton presidency for you and what did you learn from that that helped you in your future career? That's, you know..."

"fired. Uh, not really a good thing. So she doesn't have a job. I'm out of a job and we have a mortgage that we can't afford., Uh,, that, was, kind, of a, low moment. Uh, uh, that's a personal low mome..."

"uh Bruce Reed and I were responsible for welfare reform to get it done. And if you go back then uh that was a big thing about work. It was a big thing for a Democrat to end the entitlement and uh a lo..."

"holidays my rabbi attacked me in his sermon for what I was doing in my government job and um uh I'm still a Jewish I still go to synag but it was actually and it was a intense pressure because there w..."

"so, uh, the low point in the Clinton was being able to be true to what I thought was right. help a president see through what they wanted and then uh be able to take your rabbis personal criticism you..."

"things I always say, I'm proud to have worked for the president, but if it wasn't, for, the, ' 06, and, '08, House, gains, he would have gotten his agenda done. It's just not possible. And I spent a l..."

"understand what it's going to take politically to get this done. And if you get it done, what are the consequences of getting it done? And there's good things policy-wise and there's challenges politi..."

"did. In 2011, you went from being that executive agent of the president to actually being the principal yourself. And what kind of leadership changes did you have to make or what kind of things as a l..."

"function. And I had run for office before, been a chief of staff to run a White House. Uh and mayor though is uh it is a transition from being an agent for somebody else to being the principal for you..."

"as you have? Find a different rabbi. uh you know I think uh look um there's a difference between where you also it's not always consistent. So what I mean by how a president or how if you are in the s..."

"of America built top to bottom. And I indexed it and the reason is I don't want to once I got that vote it passed 50 to zero but I didn't want another mayor and city council to have to go through the ..."

"you think the long-term game for other people is worth that. Um and that was the same thing to tell in a different venue that uh uh that presidents when they make tough calls and that chance uh Obama ..."

"39 million visitors. We now have 54 million visitors. And it's been an incredible growth both in tourism beyond business traveler to tourists and we're really marketing and the hotel industry loves wh..."

"to come back and get you. What goes around comes around. So, I always try to start when we negotiate something, sit at the table with my staff and roll up a okay, write out to me their wins and the on..."

"lower. So there's a lot of different positive. One, you got to go out and create, a, farm, team., You, know,, in, ' 06 and '08 when I and you know it's everybody goes, "Oh, that's when we took back th..."

"And my view is right now, number one get on top of redistricting. I want it all handled by courts and commissions. Get the state legislators out of that because we haven't done it the other way and th..."

"among Republicans, I'm for one of those agree disagreements. I'm all for it. Okay fair enough. Presidents want Russia. I'm with John McCain, Lindsey Graham. I'm for NATO. Why? Wedge. Wedges. Schisms h..."

"is worth fighting for. I have one last question before going to the Q&A with the audience. I have two last answers. Fantastic. Hopefully. Uh, who's the Republican you most respected in Washington when..."

"he and I over a lunch had worked through the agreements to both achieve the president's goal of shutting down Guantanamo. Lindseay's goal of what cases were military trial versus civilian. That was th..."

"house just to get them there. and they don't see the political system addressing the future better. They know the future's going to be rough for their kids. And what they're worried about is the dysfu..."

"Does that help? Okay. Come back to Chicago. It's raining here too often. You got to pick on people. I'm just uh Mayor Emanuel, uh thank you for coming here. My name is George. I'm a second year MBA st..."

"Well, here is actually I'll just get reversing their policies on immigration, reversing their tax policy. No. Uh uh here's my basic uh northstar. Uh cooperate where we can confront where we must. That..."

"compromise uh uh on principles about Chicago being a welcoming city and a place where you can dream for your children. I will never compromise on that. I will never ever allow the city that gave my gr..."

"build our public transportation? Great. I'll always take your money. Uh uh so that those are type of things. That's you know, uh, where I'm willing to do it. And I'll be clear about that. I'm willing ..."

"also understanding of the issue. Okay so we have 77 neighborhoods in Chicago. Last year, 37 of the 77 experienced a decline in shootings and homicides and are still and in January still experiencing i..."

"school. There's a program called BAM become a man. I just had Theo Epstein from uh the Chicago uh Cubs come to a circle when President uh Obama introduced my brother's keeper. The young man Christian ..."

"seen as the changes being done to them. And I think when you look at what's happened around the country, Indianapolis and Memphis have the highest homicide rate in their history. San Jose's up, San Di..."