And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and m….

I think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. An….

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very differ….

I've not been to Afghanistan or - but what people are clearly pointing to is that it becomes more difficult to have it. You could do it. I think weat….

I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insur….

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three m….

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns..

Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values..

President Obama made the right choice, over 1 million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thri….

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabiliza….

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban..

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' ….

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor..

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the poli….

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession..

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. D….

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives..

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation b….

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have a Sons of Iraq….

As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the very heart of the policing professi….

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work..