I wouldn't have run for office if I wasn't an optimistic person. I'm a realistic optimistic person, though.
Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.
Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.
We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.
Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.