I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote down that what they sought was an escape from an old world which dictated their conscience and established their merit based on who their parents.

If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.