Top 34 Quotes by Jane Byrne

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.

In my family I was never known as the fighter, like I became all of a sudden.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.