In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.