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

There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God - the Source of unalienable rights and the Policeman stationed in every human heart... But apparently, we don't believe in that sort of thing anymore.

Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty

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.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.