Rod Blagojevich: “Not to be vengeful, but because it's just.”

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…

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 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…