Rod Blagojevich: “I've got this thing and it's bleeping golden and I'm just not giving it up for bleeping nothing.”

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.

Let me make this perfectly clear.

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'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…