Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

Either you suffer& die or you choose to fight& rebirth until dreams cometh true and reach you home.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!