Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

Stay determined to achieve your dreams.

Be careful with your gift. It can lead to your success or your destruction.

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.