Illinois Quotes

I grew up in Illinois.

— Ben Zobrist

I hate Illinois Nazis.

— John Belushi

I'm an Illinois boy and an Indiana boy.

— Matt Mitrione

Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

— J. B. Pritzker

“Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!”

— Uncle Arnie Mamath

Illinois has severe budget problem. You cannot cut your way out of the problem.

— Michael Madigan

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

— Bruce Rauner

Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.

— Bruce Rauner

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

— Scott Walker

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

— Laurie Metcalf

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

— Alice Hamilton

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the…

— Clint Walker

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

— Sayed Kashua

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

— Natasha Leggero

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

— Tom Morello

Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

— J. B. Pritzker

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California,…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the…

— Bill Dedman

Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific…

— Dick Durbin

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University…

— Ryan McPartlin

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic…

— Robert Dold

I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the…

— Stuart Hamm

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the…

— Joe Lando

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to…

— Nick Offerman

The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out…

— Tina Fey

Personally, I'm incredibly lucky to represent the 10th district of Illinois, which stretches from the edges of Cook county all the way…

— Brad Schneider

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…

— James Keller

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university…

— Hugh Hefner

...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical…

— Ralph W. Moss

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in…

— Timothy Egan

Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a…

— Jeff Belanger

In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This…

— Randy Alcorn

I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself…

— Abraham Lincoln

Well apparently nothing as of December 13, 1978. There was 20 trained police officers came to the house, with a warrant..searched the…

— John Wayne Gacy

Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.

— Mike Quigley

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

— Jerry Costello

National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents,

— Barack Obama

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

— Carol Moseley Braun

Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.

— J. B. Pritzker

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an…

— Ron Fournier