This year we surprised a lot of people. I'm happy now that it's done.

This year we surprised a lot of people. I'm happy now that it's done.

My personal feeling is we’re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go read more

My personal feeling is we’re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down for a long time, ... I just don’t think it’s sound public policy in the times we live in now. I’d rather have a bank account so if something hits us and hits us hard, we have got a fund.

This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there read more

This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there were 188.

The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the read more

The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the Governor's Mansion, they really have to put up a Jim Edgar-type candidate, a moderate.

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in read more

Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.

We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women read more

We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women who are out there protecting our big, fat, bloated lifestyle.

It created quite a mess here in Massachusetts.

It created quite a mess here in Massachusetts.

That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it read more

That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it back.