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
blanket convicted talking
I think a blanket anything is usually wrong. We're talking about convicted murderers, and I think that is a mistake.
care doctor means medicine
That means they can't see a doctor when they need to, can't get the medicine they need, can't get the care they need,
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I have no involvement whatsoever in anything surrounding the alleged corruption at the teachers retirement system, and nobody close to me does either,
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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 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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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 federal government has failed to act, ... So it's time that we do.
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I'm going to make this announcement because our budget director is on vacation; he's out of town, ... I was thinking, too, when I was on this stage, why not make a change? I'm not even going to call the budget director or call the staffers and see whether or not we can afford it. We're not going to just double the funding, I'm going to increase it tenfold.
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the idea of not running hasn't crossed my mind.
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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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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.
around-the-world biofuels energy
Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world
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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.