Edwin Eisendrath Quotations

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

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 he and I haven't talk and I am not thinking about that.

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 him with the state budget.

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

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 the investigations of the U.S. attorney. Every where I go, people say it's time for a change.

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

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 be last!

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

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.