Rod Blagojevich: “All we're asking for is an opportunity to try something new.”

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…

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

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…