Rod Blagojevich Quotes

I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it ... I will govern as a reformer.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace
no matter what your diploma says.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.