Rod Blagojevich

Not to be vengeful, but because it's just.

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 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…

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 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.

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.

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

The fix is in.

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

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

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…

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…

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.

I have done nothing wrong, and I'm not going to quit a job the people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob.

I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing, that I intend to stay on the job, and I will fight this thing every step of the way. I will fight. I will fight. I will fight until I take my last breath.