Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevichserved as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 December 1956
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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I consider an approval of a reverse auction procurement process of market-based rates for wholesale power either a serious neglect of duty or gross incompetence by the ICC,
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I can't think of anything more important, ... (It's) something . . . that no state anywhere in America is currently doing, and that is to provide health care to every child.
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That means regular doctors visits. That means going to the dentist. That means having your eyes checked. That means coverage for the medicines children need,
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That's the best way to do it, versus taking money away from our schools, taking money away from providing health care for people,
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Taking the F-16s out of Springfield would compromise our ability to protect the people of Illinois and will impact the safety and security of the entire Midwest, ... This indefensible decision would make our homeland less secure and cost our taxpayers $10 million.
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I've got news for the president, ... This is America and these people are not refugees.
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That means they can't see a doctor when they need to, can't get the medicine they need, can't get the care they need,
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The truth is, we do things honestly, ethically and legally and we're doing it completely different from what some of our predecessors did, ... Some of this could very well be the result of spillover, as well as the sort of growing pains of change that have been going on with how we do things in a different way to keep the trust of the people.
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the idea of not running hasn't crossed my mind.
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And just as important, it proves that government is supposed to exist for the good of the people, not the other way around, and certainly not for the personal enrichment of those who hold public office.
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The children of working families are the children who are falling through the cracks, ... It's not supposed to be that way in America.
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The federal government has failed to act, ... So it's time that we do.
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I'm going to make this announcement because our budget director is on vacation; he's out of town, ... I was thinking, too, when I was on this stage, why not make a change? I'm not even going to call the budget director or call the staffers and see whether or not we can afford it. We're not going to just double the funding, I'm going to increase it tenfold.
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Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world