Rod Blagojevich: “I will not give $8 million to this children's hospital if you don't give me the $25,000 in campaign contributions.”

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

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

Let me make this perfectly clear.