If there's anything that this administration can do to make America great again, it's to protect our rights and our freedoms and to hold the people that do this accountable.

I want to say to the people of Illinois two things: Number one, I never raised your taxes, and number two, I didn’t do it.

I didn't know how corrupt the criminal justice system was until it did it to me and that was a wake-up call.

Trump freed me & Obama sold me out, so I'm biased, but I believe Trump has done more as president in his whirlwind first 8 days than Obama did in his entire 8 years.

I intend to stay on the job, and I will fight this thing every step of the way.

I've got this thing and it's (EXPLETIVE DELETED) golden, and I'm just not giving it up for (EXPLETIVE DELETED) nothing.

I'm saddened and hurt, but I'm not surprised by the indictment. I'm innocent. I now will fight in the courts to clear my name. I would ask for the good people of Illinois to wait for the trial and afford me the presumption of innocence…

I love the people of Illinois today now more than I ever did before. Thank you. And the fight goes on. Just because I'm not governor anymore, doesn't mean I'm not going to keep fighting for you.

Just because I'm not governor anymore doesn't mean I'm not going to keep fighting for you and for the causes that I have fought for my whole life.

I want to have every taped conversation of the wiretaps on the phones involved heard in that process. I am in many ways the anti-Richard Nixon who worked very hard during Watergate to keep those tapes from being heard. And I want everyone…

Let me make this perfectly clear.

I have this hope that maybe somebody will wake up one day and realize there's some misunderstanding here.

Under no circumstances... was I trying to sell a Senate seat.

The fix is in.

Under these rules, I'm not even getting a fair trial. They are just hanging me.

Let me reassert to all of you, once more, that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing. That issue will be dealt with on a separate course, in an appropriate forum, a federal court. And I'm confident that, at the end of the day, I will…

I took actions, with the advice of lawyers and experts, to find ways -- creative ways to use the executive authority of a governor to get real things done for people who rely on us. And in many cases, the things we did for people have…

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth.

I'm absolutely confident and certain that the United States Senate is going to seat a man of Roland Burris's unquestioned integrity, extensive experience, and his long history of public service.

I am absolutely confident and certain that the United States Senate is going to seat a man of Roland Burris's unquestioned integrity, extensive experience and his long history of public service.

I think the accomplishments for people speak for themselves. And, if, somehow, that's impeachable, then I'm on the wrong planet and I'm living in the wrong place.

I intend to answer every allegation that comes my way. However, I intend to answer them in the appropriate forum -- in a court of law.

To the people of Illinois, I ask that they wait and be patient, sit back and take a deep breath. And please reserve judgment; afford me the same rights that you and your children have: the presumption of innocence.

I am dying to answer these charges. I am dying to show you how innocent I am.