Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.

I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We've got to move back to the national.

The critical thing is that we have to reduce the tax burden.

I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria's benefactors and providing humanitarian funding to make sure that anybody that wanted to leave Syria could.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

When government grows, it breaks the family.