You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

The implementation of the streamlined agreement will allow states to recoup valuable resources that can, in turn, be put toward education, public safety, tax relief, or other pressing state needs.

I do not believe he doesn't know anything about what's going on,

I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.

Steve was a good Republican but more importantly he was a good, decent man, ... He had a big heart and was committed to big ideals. He will be greatly missed and the thoughts and prayers of the Rauschenberger family are with the Meyer family on this sad day.

This administration has hypnotized some of the leadership in the active teachers unions by saying somehow we'll recover later. But the way this administration spends, we're not recovering anything at all.

I've been a negotiator all my life - selling furniture is really helping people make decisions. Now I've got pretty strong respect in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle because the work I've done over the years on the budget, giving and taking, ultimately winning decisions.

We've had on the books programs in Illinois where children could join the health care program of their parents, and go to the same doctors and have the same kind of health care. It's too bad this governor couldn't implement any of those programs for the last three years.