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

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

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

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

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