If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.