This just echoes what I’ve heard all over the state. State employees just don’t trust the governor. They don’t trust him with their pensions, they don’t trust him to hire competent managers, they don’t trust...

You can expect that between now and the end we are going all out.

I think there’s enough (time). I’m not worried about my campaign plan.

It’s ethics and education and our economy where the two of us differ, not on the Democrats’ social issues.

The Governor has had four years to clean up pay-to-play politics in Illinois. He hasn’t done it. The U.S. Attorney, the Illinois Attorney General, and the State’s Attorney of Cook County are all actively investigating...

I have not bought one second of his being too busy being governor to be a candidate.

The State of Illinois has the fifth biggest economy in the country, but is 35th in growth. That is why I am running. We can and must do better. I know we don’t have to...

You afforded me the chance to bring a different kind of politics to the state, a respectful politics.

I don’t expect him to want to debate. He has a terrible record and no plan for the future.

I think everybody now knows the things that I care passionately about. And that doesn’t change. If I think those things are being addressed, then I’m open to that, but it is a moment and...

Just yesterday he diverted another $1.1 billion from pensions to pay for his election-year budget. He continues to reward contributors and his lobbyist friends in ways that give Illinois a bad reputation and have attracted...

He can’t mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.

He’s employing the campaign strategy of carefully staged events and big ad buys paid for by special interests and no open debate.

Mr. Blagojevich has been campaigning at taxpayer expense for months. Now he will have to rely on the state contractor and lobbyist contributions to pay for his efforts.

He’s cut college funding every year . . . and (then) in an election year, he promises $90 million he doesn’t have.

Embracing mediocrity is not the way to improve schools.

Disappointment and the idea that we could do so much better in this state.

In Illinois, more than any other state, where you live determines what type of education you can get.