Quotes from Mark Kirk

I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea.

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.

I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.