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.

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

Keep your mind open

Love is like a cigarette we all know it kills but don't deny.

When it comes to energy policy, I don't think that it's up to the individuals to make energy policy.

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

So some will be left who remember.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

Last guys don't finish nice.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.