Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

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

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

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

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

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