Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

Rights come from God and only from God.

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

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes of unchanging truth, by a will that is the real measure of what is right, and therefore of what is good.