Quotes from Lori Lightfoot

We have to get to a place in the city where our young officers understand that respectful, constitutional engagement with the community is their most powerful tool.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.

We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.

What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.

I've been lucky and I recognize that, but I haven't lost sight of that girl I was.

Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that's where I'm going to put a significant amount of input.

There's significant movement as far to the left in our party as far as you can go, where people are trying to out-Bernie Bernie.

The only thing you have in your life is your integrity.

Building channels for people to believe that the city sees them and hears them and is willing to invest, is going to be critically important, and we have to start that right away.

For more than two decades Chicagoans have routinely traveled to neighboring cities like Rosemont, Elgin, Joliet, Gary and Hammond to gamble. If people in Chicago want to gamble, then they should be able to gamble in Chicago at a city-owned, land-based casino.

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

I have a wealth of experience, not only as a senior executive in different departments in the city, but I've also, in my private practice life, helped small businesses, middle-market businesses really try to navigate the sometimes difficult world of city government.

I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I felt like an outsider, and since I didn't know of LGBT people - much less LGBT black women - living happy, healthy, and successful lives, I didn't believe I could ever marry or have a child.

When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.

I do not support the city's red light camera system. This system was sold to Chicagoans as a public safety solution, but it's always really been about revenue, and we've seen that fines fall disproportionately on people of color.

We need to educate our young people about the dangers of gun violence and that there are real consequences for solving disputes with guns.

One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever I get, you're not getting.' Changing that dynamic is going to be critically important for me as a leader, so that people don't feel they're pitted against each other.

Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything I can to make sure every kid - in every neighborhood regardless of zip code, economic status and race or ethnicity - is able to live a life of safety.

We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn't determine your destiny.

Breaking the back of the Chicago machine, it's quite monumental.