I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

I have learned to be happy by calming my ego.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Sometimes you have to separate yourself from the ones you love for a season, so God can reveal things to you by His spirit.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.