Love Quote by Richard M. Daley

“Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago” is the kind of boast that pretends to be modest. Daley opens with a universalizing claim, not to invite debate but to close it: if everyone wants the job, then the job - and by extension the person holding it - must be self-evidently prestigious. It’s classic machine-city rhetoric in a post-machine era, swapping ward bosses for a civic brand.

The repetition of “commitment” does heavy lifting. By naming “the business community” and “the not-for-profit community” back-to-back, Daley stitches together two constituencies that often want different things, framing them as harmoniously aligned under his stewardship. It’s coalition talk designed for donors, CEOs, foundation boards, and editorial pages: an argument that Chicago’s power players are not merely cooperating but converging. The dash-heavy phrasing mimics a breathless roll call of unity, the verbal equivalent of a ribbon-cutting with every stakeholder on stage.

The context is Daley’s long reign as the city’s corporate-friendly manager-in-chief, selling Chicago as orderly, investable, and future-facing after decades when national narratives leaned on corruption, segregation, and fiscal peril. “Where we are today” is strategically vague; it implies measurable progress without naming messy metrics like displacement, school closures, or patronage scandals. “Wonderful city” lands as a soft, emotional tag at the end - less a description than a seal. The intent isn’t to persuade skeptics; it’s to reinforce a governing myth: Chicago succeeds because its elites are aligned, and Daley is the one who keeps them that way.