The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.