Illinois Quotes · Page 3

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

— Alan Keyes

Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

I'm from Downer's Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into…

— Emo Philips

Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

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

— George Ryan

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

— John Warren Kindt

In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government…

— Emory Douglas

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

— Bruce Rauner

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local…

— Ike Barinholtz

I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and…

— Nick Offerman

I'm among the first girls ever to play Little League baseball, and to my knowledge, the very first in western Illinois. It…

— Therese Fowler

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When…

— Dwyane Wade

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million…

— Charles Kuralt

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I…

— Bill Lipinski

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We…

— Dick Durbin

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the…

— Cindy Morgan

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and…

— Bruce Rauner

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was…

— June Squibb

I grew up in Illinois. If you were in Chicago, you were a Democrat. You get out to the suburbs and central…

— Richard Painter

I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was…

— Matt Skiba

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality…

— Nick Offerman

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

— Bill Dedman

I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and…

— Newt Gingrich

One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois.

— Jacques Marquette

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

— Bill Dedman

Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.

— Bruce Rauner

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

— Carol Moseley Braun

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

— Emo Philips

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

— David Letterman

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

— Jerry Costello

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

— Ronald Reagan

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

— Godfrey

Illinois has every reason to succeed. We have the hardest-working people in America, the best infrastructure in America, and the best location…

— Bruce Rauner

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

— Bruce Rauner

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

— Frank Church

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not…

— Stephen Tobolowsky

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

— John O'Hara

The Illinois Senate passed a bill on Wednesday to legalize medical marijuana. The bill was passed after the state senator said, 'Come…

— Jimmy Fallon

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

— Bruce Rauner

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

— Jan Schakowsky