Alderman Dana McLendon quote: "At the end of the day we wound up with five options, none of which had any recommendations with them. It was multiple-choice questions like on a menu. None of them seemed to have any consensus that this will actually fix something."

You get department heads possibly lining up their loyalties to politicians rather than to their boss...
ALDERMAN DANA MCLENDON

I want what he's been smoking. Here's a mailbox. I want all your land.
ALDERMAN DANA MCLENDON

What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?
GORDON MCLENDON

Sometimes it's good to go to war, just to know you can
NAOMI ALDERMAN

I think we have gotten good value.
ALDERMAN MOKROS

Now we are looking at a higher price.
ALDERMAN MOKROS

We need to do this now.
ALDERMAN MOKROS

If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.
ALDERMAN MOKROS

The only thing I can say is this seems to be what was asked of the petitioners. You're getting rid o...
ALDERMAN GALVIN

We've been dealing with this (parking issue) since the beginning, and every single councilor knew th...
ALDERMAN GALVIN

(The council had) every right to raise the issue.
ALDERMAN GALVIN

The petition doesn't hold water. Your concerns do, though.
ALDERMAN GALVIN

I would not support a McDonald's, a Burger King or a Dunkin' Donuts at that site, but this is a rest...
ALDERMAN GALVIN

We might as well work with them.
ALDERMAN GALVIN

It's all personal, too much politics.
ALDERMAN CHARLES

Of course I will pay it back. That's the city's money.
ALDERMAN CHARLES

I do not cash my checks nor even look at them. I just put them in the bank.
ALDERMAN CHARLES

I have still not received that letter.
ALDERMAN CHARLES

We rotate it each year.
ALDERMAN CHARLES

[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know ...
JASON ALDERMAN

This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydroge...
JASON ALDERMAN

We are hoping this is real wake-up call so people can start getting ready for the colder weather.
JASON ALDERMAN

We are all shopping in the same stores, so if someone hoards the toilet paper, there's less for us.
JASON ALDERMAN

We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities.
JASON ALDERMAN

Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair ti...
JASON ALDERMAN

Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to spea...
JASON ALDERMAN

The only hope is that people are learning. We want to see pesticides used like antibiotics. We canno...
NANCY ALDERMAN

That's one of the easiest things you can do, and it doesn't cost anything. We don't think most peopl...
NANCY ALDERMAN

Vehicle exhaust is truly one of our largest exposures. We decided that people were really not aware ...
NANCY ALDERMAN

It's so much better now.
NANCY ALDERMAN

We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.
NANCY ALDERMAN

It has been such an important tool. For ordinary people, for the government, for everyone.
NANCY ALDERMAN

One person comes in the morning and starts all the buses in a lot, and they idle until the drivers a...
NANCY ALDERMAN

What's most staggering is that about 50 percent of the toxins in the air come from mobile sources.
NANCY ALDERMAN

It's one thing to have your partner tell you he or she has multiple personalities, and it's another ...
TRACY ALDERMAN

It might seem as if he’s been sitting around eating M& M’s and scratching his ass for the pa...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

The candidates hit the floor like Travolta, ready with their moves, knowing that the spotlight is go...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

Vi è stato insegnato che siete immonde, che non siete sante, che il vostro corpo è impuro e non po...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

Tom scowls, just a micro-expression, before the practiced face peels over the real one, the smile sm...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

We’re only pretending everything is normal because we don’t know what else to do.
NAOMI ALDERMAN

On the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the third year after the Day of the Girls, Tatiana Moska...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

It was like being part of a wave of water,” she says. “A wave of spray from the ocean feels powe...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

She had been here for the protests three years earlier; yes, she had held up her banner and shouted ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy the l...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

It follows that there are two ways for the nature and use of human power to change. One is that an o...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

It’s enough for her to know, sitting in there in the dark, that if she really wanted to she could ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

That is how a man speaks. And that is why.
NAOMI ALDERMAN

Two
NAOMI ALDERMAN

Bring it.
NAOMI ALDERMAN

The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.
NAOMI ALDERMAN

It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could if she wa...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

He feels excited. He feels ashamed. He wants to talk to her, but he is afraid. Maybe he imagined it ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

It turns out the voter's lied. Just like the accusations that they always throw at hard-working publ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is no...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy that ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.
NAOMI ALDERMAN

This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she w...
NAOMI ALDERMAN

That consistently is the most common objection or common opposition you see with a street-naming deb...
DEREK ALDERMAN

Businesses also get used to having their address as part of their identity. Their address is part of...
DEREK ALDERMAN

So it does get complicated.
DEREK ALDERMAN

From an environmental perspective, the energy used to get things here has a big impact.
MARC ALDERMAN

While it may not have been a total success, I don't look at it as a failure, What's frivolous, to me...
MICHAEL ALDERMAN

Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My ...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedd...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with ...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliche...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're ...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do t...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they'...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you wan...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner a...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dre...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and ...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say...
WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

I do not cash my checks nor even look at them. I just put them in the bank.
ALDERMAN JOE CHARLES

We've been dealing with this (parking issue) since the beginning, and every single councilor knew th...
ALDERMAN SCOTT GALVIN

(The council had) every right to raise the issue.
ALDERMAN SCOTT GALVIN

The petition doesn't hold water. Your concerns do, though.
ALDERMAN SCOTT GALVIN

I would not support a McDonald's, a Burger King or a Dunkin' Donuts at that site, but this is a rest...
ALDERMAN SCOTT GALVIN

We might as well work with them.
ALDERMAN SCOTT GALVIN

It's all personal, too much politics.
ALDERMAN JOE CHARLES

Of course I will pay it back. That's the city's money.
ALDERMAN JOE CHARLES

I have still not received that letter.
ALDERMAN JOE CHARLES

We rotate it each year.
ALDERMAN JOE CHARLES

I think we have gotten good value.
ALDERMAN DAVID MOKROS

Now we are looking at a higher price.
ALDERMAN DAVID MOKROS

We need to do this now.
ALDERMAN DAVID MOKROS

If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.
ALDERMAN DAVID MOKROS

The only thing I can say is this seems to be what was asked of the petitioners. You're getting rid o...
ALDERMAN SCOTT GALVIN

They're the ones that come out here and try to gain your trust.
JO LYNN ALDERMAN

When you get (high), anything can happen.
JO LYNN ALDERMAN

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our min...
DANA CARVEY

We are all one.
DANA PETROVIC

There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Bu...
DANA CARVEY

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through...
DANA TORRES

It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to ...
DANA TORRES

I can't dance.
DANA TORRES

I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
DANA TORRES

As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for ...
DANA TORRES

I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to ma...
DANA TORRES

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
DANA TORRES

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
DANA STABENOW

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native...
DANA STABENOW

I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a w...
DANA STABENOW

The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for a...
DANA STABENOW

My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Ala...
DANA STABENOW

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, th...
DANA STABENOW

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certai...
DANA SPIOTTA

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
DANA SPIOTTA

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them...
DANA SPIOTTA

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
DANA SPIOTTA

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
DANA SPIOTTA

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean'...
DANA SPIOTTA

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had t...
DANA SPIOTTA

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger fo...
DANA SPIOTTA

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a...
DANA SPIOTTA

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots...
DANA SPIOTTA

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narra...
DANA SPIOTTA

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true....
DANA SPIOTTA

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-a...
DANA SPIOTTA

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street...
DANA SPIOTTA

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and i...
DANA SPIOTTA

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So...
DANA SPIOTTA

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that...
DANA SPIOTTA

The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that yo...
DANA SPIOTTA

Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be a...
DANA SPIOTTA

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
DANA SPIOTTA

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the wr...
DANA SPIOTTA

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so con...
DANA SPIOTTA

I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Bar...
DANA SNYDER

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for t...
DANA SNYDER

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.
DANA SNYDER

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
DANA SNYDER

I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
DANA SNYDER

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
DANA SNYDER

I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
DANA SNYDER

I graduated from the University of Whatever.
DANA SNYDER

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her ...
DANA SNYDER

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
DANA SNYDER

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels l...
DANA SCHUTZ

I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed...
DANA SCHUTZ

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with id...
DANA SCHUTZ

There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from livi...
DANA SCHUTZ

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watch...
DANA SCHUTZ

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create ...
DANA SCHUTZ

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With...
DANA SCHUTZ

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
DANA SCHUTZ

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get an...
DANA ROHRABACHER

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
DANA ROHRABACHER

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for th...
DANA ROHRABACHER

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take th...
DANA ROHRABACHER

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be...
DANA ROHRABACHER

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or mur...
DANA ROHRABACHER

I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerou...
DANA ROHRABACHER

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen as...
DANA ROHRABACHER

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevol...
DANA ROHRABACHER

But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as p...
DANA ROHRABACHER

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
DANA ROHRABACHER

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democr...
DANA ROHRABACHER

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
DANA ROHRABACHER

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely cla...
DANA ROHRABACHER

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing th...
DANA ROHRABACHER

Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; an...
DANA ROHRABACHER

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively n...
DANA ROHRABACHER

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of th...
DANA ROHRABACHER

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being pre...
DANA ROHRABACHER

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by t...
DANA ROHRABACHER

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any othe...
DANA ROHRABACHER

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitu...
DANA ROHRABACHER

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana i...
DANA ROHRABACHER

As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I co...
DANA PRIEST

The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been strugglin...
DANA PRIEST

My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them...
DANA PRIEST

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote t...
DANA PRIEST

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
DANA PLATO

Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are...
DANA PLATO

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it...
DANA PLATO

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because ...
DANA PLATO

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
DANA PLATO

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences ...
DANA PLATO

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
DANA PLATO

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a wom...
DANA PLATO

If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would b...
DANA PLATO

I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because...
DANA PLATO

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier...
DANA PLATO

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong...
DANA PLATO

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society wil...
DANA PLATO

In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever bod...
DANA PLATO

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thi...
DANA PLATO

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention...
DANA PLATO

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
DANA PLATO

At the end of the day we wound up with five options, none of which had any recommendations with them. It was multiple-choice questions like on a menu. None of them seemed to have any consensus that this will actually fix something.

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Alderman Dana McLendon

At the end of the day we wound up with five options, none of which had any recommendations with them. It was multiple-choice questions like on a menu. None of them seemed to have any consensus that this will actually fix something.

Alderman Dana McLendon

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