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

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

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

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

We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.

Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

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