Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevichserved as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 December 1956
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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He's a superstar, ... and I'm delighted that Mike agreed to stay with us.
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I think Pat is capable, qualified, very smart and very honest. What's wrong with that?
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We are now in a position. Our fiscal house is in order, and we are poised to seize this moment, right this time, to give every single child in the state of Illinois access to complete and affordable health insurance,
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I support the governor's decision on the moratorium. I think he is right to review all of the cases on a case-by-case basis. I think that is a moral obligation. He's been right to do that. But I disagree with his decision to provide blanket clemency. I think a blanket anything is usually wrong. There is no one-size fits all approach to this. We're talking about convicted murderers. And I just think that -- that is a mistake.
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Whether it's Gov. Edgar or somebody else, it's never mattered to me, ... If I make a decision to run for governor, I'm going to run for the office of governor.
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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.
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I consider an approval of a reverse auction procurement process of market-based rates for wholesale power either a serious neglect of duty or gross incompetence by the ICC,
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The truth is, we do things honestly, ethically and legally and we're doing it completely different from what some of our predecessors did, ... Some of this could very well be the result of spillover, as well as the sort of growing pains of change that have been going on with how we do things in a different way to keep the trust of the people.
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I can't think of anything more important, ... (It's) something . . . that no state anywhere in America is currently doing, and that is to provide health care to every child.
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And just as important, it proves that government is supposed to exist for the good of the people, not the other way around, and certainly not for the personal enrichment of those who hold public office.
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The children of working families are the children who are falling through the cracks, ... It's not supposed to be that way in America.
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Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world