He's very talented and very bright, but I've rarely seen him deviate from the Democratic Party line. ... He's very effective for his side of the aisle, and if it's a partisan issue, he typically won't back down.

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win, ... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

They need to flesh out more details.

I think this assistance is too generous, it gives too much money, it goes far beyond compensating the airlines for those three days that government edict was in effect and the question I have is clearly we are compensating them for far more.

I'd say your were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers, ... A Carney will at least tell you up front that he is running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what was purported to be the seventh-largest corporation in America.

I think this assistance is too generous, it gives too much money.

If elected, he wouldn't go to Washington and become part of the system there, not go along with all the log rolling. He'll be inclined to fight the insider dealing.

Sen. Durbin works seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The Senate is really his life.

I absolutely could not envision getting back into elective politics, at least until my son Jake is in college.