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Why did you never run for office? you have to be crazy. you know what? they don t want straightforward politicians. they don t last. you have to be real cold-blooded. being an elected official is like working for the drug cartel. you can t give anybody any mercy. it seems like whatever might be in your heart and however pure you might be when you finally arrive in office, somebody brings you a big case, opens it up, says mr. president, mr. mayor, mr. governor, this is the real situation. at which point it s an, oh try to start making some serious accommodations. yes. kwame kilpatrick. what went wrong there? greed. just old school? greedy. he was greedy. i didn t support him in the beginning. and when he was and i was one of his biggest critics. but when he got in trouble, who did he call? he called me. called you. i should have listened to my wife. she said, don t be messing with them. are there good guys out there ....
But when he got in trouble, who did he call? he called me. called you. i should have listened to my wife. she said, don t be messing with them. are there good guys out there who could presumably run for office and win? there s a lot of guys, yes, but they don t want to run. there s a lot of people why won t they run? you ve got to take the bad that come along with it. you got to take the garbage. why should a bright young guy out of fresh out of law school start thinking about running for anything in the city of detroit? sooner or later, it s going to be all right. it s going to come it s going to be all right. it s a tough town. is detroit going to turn things around? i could lie and tell you, yes. but you know what? this city s screwed. only place i ve ever been that looks anything like detroit does now? chernobyl. i m not being funny. that s the truth. abandoned, abandoned, abandoned. but you have to admire the ....
Corps, journalism. why did you never run for office? you have to be crazy. you know what? they don t want straightforward politicians. they don t last. you have to be real cold-blooded. being an elected official is like working for the drug cartel. you can t give anybody any mercy. it seems like whatever might be in your heart and however pure you might be when you finally arrive in office, somebody brings you a big case, opens it up, says mr. president, mr. mayor, mr. governor, this is the real situation. at which point it s an, oh try to start making some serious accommodations. yes. kwame kilpatrick. what went wrong there? greed. just old school? greedy. he was greedy. i didn t support him in the beginning. and when he was and i was one of his biggest critics. but when he got in trouble, who did he call? he called me. called you. i should have listened to my wife. she said, don t be messing with them. are there good guys out there ....
Why did you never run for office? you have to be crazy. you know what? they don t want straightforward politicians. they don t last. you have to be real cold-blooded. being an elected official is like working for the drug cartel. you can t give anybody any mercy. it seems like whatever might be in your heart and however pure you might be when you finally arrive in office, somebody brings you a big case, opens it up, says mr. president, mr. mayor, mr. governor, this is the real situation. at which point it s an, oh try to start making some serious accommodations. yes. kwame kilpatrick. what went wrong there? greed. just old school? greedy. he was greedy. i didn t support him in the beginning. and when he was and i was one of his biggest critics. but when he got in trouble, who did he call? he called me. called you. i should have listened to my wife. she said, don t be messing with them. ....
You can decide. thank you. i have to ask, you re born and raised in the detroit area? right. an academic star, marine corps, journalism. why did you never run for office? you have to be crazy. you know what? they don t want straightforward politicians. they don t last. you have to be real cold-blooded. being an elected official is like working for the drug cartel. you can t give anybody any mercy. it seems like whatever might be in your heart and however pure you might be when you finally arrive in office, somebody brings you a big case, opens it up, says mr. president, mr. mayor, mr. governor, this is the real situation. at which point it s an, oh try to start making some serious accommodations. yes. kwame kilpatrick. what went wrong there? greed. just old school? greedy. he was greedy. i didn t support him in the beginning. and when he was and i was one of his biggest critics. but when he got in trouble, who did he call? he called me. called you. i should ....