Rod Blagojevich Quotes

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• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the…
• Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the…
• One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to…
• For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same…
• Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world
• 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…
• I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.
• We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I…
• I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape…
• 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…
• Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents
• Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want…
• I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a…
• Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years,…
• Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.
• If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or…
• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.
• We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.
• I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you…
• Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

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