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

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.

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.

Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

Increase is so natural that it starts from before we taste the first breath of life at birth

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.

You can hardly do anything that won't seem stupid later.

If you really want everything, then give up everything.

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.