Richard J. Daley — American Politician born on May 15, 1902, died on December 20, 1976

Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who was the Mayor of Chicago for 21 years and chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee for 23 years, holding both positions until his death in office in 1976. Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life... (wikipedia)

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
Good government is good politics.
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.