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

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

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

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

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

I lost a lot of money with sponsors.

We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.