Mike Quigley

Our country is on an unsustainable fiscal path.

Its pension system is less than 50 percent underfunded.

No one has to tell me there is a problem. I am from Illinois.

In fiscal year 2012, 44 States are projected to have a budget deficit of at least 5 percent.

I sure don't need to be convinced that this is a serious problem. I come from Illinois, which seems to compete with California...

What I'm trying to get both sides to do is to work with the same numbers.

All local governments need to reinvent themselves, streamline and consolidate, not because they don't matter, but because they matter very, very much.

Introducing a bankruptcy statute would force bondholders to all States to question the legal regime.

Illinois has gone through decades of bad financial decisionmaking under both Democrats and Republicans.

So much of local government strikes so close to home. It is where the wheels hit the streets.

I hate to begin by respectfully disagreeing with you, but I would only suggest that the public good that private health insurance is providing health insurance...

But isn't that--go back to the Constitution. Now you are disagreeing with two out of three branches.

I was appalled. I couldn't believe it.

In the end, the only person who is elected in the executive branch is the Executive.

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Wouldn't it just be a whole lot easier if we renewed the ban on assault weapons as was done previously?

In a democracy we get the kind of government we deserve.

A wise man once said that illumination is the best disinfectant for government.