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

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

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer it with integrity. I don't want to see us achieve victory based on the fact that we are better at rigging the game than other people.

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

You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.