Ezekiel Emanuel: belief

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…You have an activist side, similar to your mother’s. Yes. It is true. I think all of us learned from my mother, and from my father, that part of our role in life is to do good. Sometimes you do good on an individual basis. I think my father was very much that. He’s not a guy who does big policy issues. He did good . . . a family that had the fourth child who came to him was free. Every kid after three was free because he knew it was a burden to charge them. He did good on a local level. My mom tended to be more of a community organizer and interested in public policy. And I think that’s rubbed off, certainly, on me. Part of the job in this world is to make it better, and the easiest way to make it better for more people is through public policy. 2009, to the New York Times, you said, I quote: “I don’t have a car. I don’t have a TV. Don’t have a house. I do, however, have four cell phones, so go figure.” Is this efficient, or was that a temporary state of affairs that was remedied?…

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