The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
“The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.”
“Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.”