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Environmentalists have so far been ecstatic over President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet picks, with some even calling it the green dream team. And when Obama introduced Democratic Senator Ken Salazar as his new Secretary of the Interior at a news conference in Chicago Wednesday morning, he was likely hoping for the same worshipful reaction. "It's time for a new kind of leadership in Washington that's committed to using our lands in a responsible way to benefit all our families," said Obama. "That is the kind of leadership embodied by Ken Salazar...
...been fortunate to go to some of the top schools in America...but I can tell you, without a doubt, that some of the best lessons I've learned in life are from playing basketball on Chicago's inner-city playgrounds. There's nothing like it." - on what the 6-foot-5-inch Duncan has learned playing basketball at venues all around his hometown, Chicago Tribune, July...
...think the current structure is morally bankrupt." - on the fact that tax-supported school funding varies depending on a community's wealth, Chicago Defender, March...
...students don't come from families with a lot of economic wealth. I'm always trying to level the playing field...This is the kind of incentive that middle-class families have had for decades." - on his decision to implement a program to pay students at 20 Chicago public schools for good grades, Chicago Tribune, Sept...
...accept this award, not quite yet. I don't feel I have earned it." - choking back tears as he refused to accept the Abraham Lincoln Award from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence in October. Duncan said he didn't deserve the award because rate of gun killings in Chicago public schools was then two per week, Chicago Sun Times...