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
ability compromise cost decision entire homeland illinois impact less people protect safety secure security taking taxpayers
Taking the F-16s out of Springfield would compromise our ability to protect the people of Illinois and will impact the safety and security of the entire Midwest, ... This indefensible decision would make our homeland less secure and cost our taxpayers $10 million.
gold bombers cost
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.
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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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impact the safety and security of the entire Midwest.
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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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I've got news for the president, ... This is America and these people are not refugees.
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,
close hopefully
This was a big step, ... Tomorrow, we hopefully can close the deal.
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We need to restore the public's faith in our state pension systems and send a message that those responsible with investing public dollars have to be held to the highest ethical standards, ... When they fail to do that, as we've seen in recent weeks, they undermine the system and breach the public trust.
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We gave it a pretty good effort, ... Maybe in the future.
change moment policy symbolic
To have that reunifying moment in a place like that I think is symbolic of the need to change some of the policy so there's more sensitivity,
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After years of problems and unacceptable results in the state's child support collection efforts, we have taken major steps during the past two-and-a-half years to turn the system around, and our efforts are paying off.
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This is going to waste precious defense dollars while providing very limited military rewards. While we were successful in keeping the bulk of the arsenal intact, we will continue our fight to keep this mission and others located at this historic military installation where they belong.