“So if there is chemistry between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, maybe that can bode for something.”

Let’s try to discover areas we can work together. That’s fine. We’re two a world power.

This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.

Russia is a competitor. They’re a strong nation, something we need to recognize, but their economy is just a little bit bigger than Illinois, so they’re not our equal.

And I think the Russians are exacerbating this by making people displaced and killing families and that’s how you lead to radicalization.

I meet with ambassadors from all countries in my role as a member of Congress, and you always have better relationships with those you actually personally get along with. That matters.

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

I think its important to engage them. And I think it’s important that we continue to fight for human rights, which is essential to denying the next generation of terrorists their recruits and this is a long-term fight we’re in when it comes to the war on terror.

. You can be a great power that’s respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won’t stand idle hoping that our economy improves.

I think Donald Trump needs to be very clear to Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don’t like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He’s hit a brick wall in a few areas.

I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don’t always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

They’re a great power arguably. But at the same time we’re not going to give any ground. We have to defend our NATO allies.

You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.