12/29/2000
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Our strategy has been to develop a National Government set of policies that would, in effect, empower citizens and families and communities."
"People are never in hopeless circumstances unless they have no power to do anything about it."
"Chicago has sort of become my second home—Illinois has."
"We created the empowerment zone concept, which Carol Moseley-Braun supported, and Chicago is participating."