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

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.

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.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by so doing you will make your world a better place than you met it.

Even technology companies get good news sometimes.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.