Illinois Quotes

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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 less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. — Carol Moseley Braun
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in… — Chris Christie
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it… — Charles Kuralt
We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state… — Barack Obama
In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit… — Randy Alcorn
It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in… — Jan Schakowsky
According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979. — George Will
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It… — Seth Shostak
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. — Dick Durbin
The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. — Robert Dold
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — George Ryan
In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois,… — Emory Douglas
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men… — August Spies
We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to… — James R. Thompson
I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois… — Joe Lando
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on… — Jeff Greenfield
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them. — Emo Philips
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation. — Alice Hamilton

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