Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Robinson

What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

Dick Durbin

Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it"?

Carol Moseley Braun

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Alan Keyes

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

Bill Lipinski

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Steve Rauschenberger

What he's going to do I think is stretch out the payment cycle. What he's going to do is essentially make the providers of the state of Illinois pay for it by paying them more re-imbursements and more slowly.

Dick Van Dyke

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

Bruce Rauner

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

To us, it's novel. In Illinois (where we are from), this would not sell. They don't like this style.

From top to bottom, one through 12, our kids are very talented. We have 12 softball players, which is a nice feeling. A lot of them have played together on Perry's summer league (Northern Illinois Thunder) team.

Alice Hamilton

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

David Letterman

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

We're pleased that the Illinois legislature has seen the worth of this. And knows that this is the way we protect our children.

Aaron Schock

In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

We can turn this state around, working together to make Illinois a better place.

Patrick is a qualifier. All this about whether Illinois has seen a transcript isn't the point. Those schools haven't seen a transcript, and they have offered.

Frank Church

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

Really be prepared to save and protect as many people in the state of Illinois as possible.

George Will

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

George Ryan

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Every time I called Illinois Midland, people weren't quite sure where the paintings were. When I was referred to Genesee and Wyoming, nobody (there) knew what this was.

John Sullivan

The state of Illinois had $17 million to spend, with requests for $67 million,

There's not a lot of teams around the state of Illinois that can say they have that type schedule left. We have it (tough schedule) for a reason. We want to be tournament tested and tournament ready.

Dee Brown

I'm going to miss putting on that Illinois jersey.

I knew Northern Illinois was going to make a run. We withstood it and lived to play another day.

Certainly, we have come a long way since 1913, the year Illinois women won the right to vote in municipal elections. But as with all things, there is always room for improvement and growth.

They have played with some Indiana schools that would be in the South Seven in southern Illinois in terms of size. Their record is deceiving.

Nick Offerman

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

Natasha Leggero

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

John Shimkus

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

John O'Hara

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

Emo Philips

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.