Quotes for All
Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it? Dick Durbin
Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor. David Letterman
Although the only way that I’m well known at Illinois State is that I am the grammar Nazi. And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they’re going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It’s … Read more
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans. Clint Walker
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we’re going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New … Read more
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. Charles Kuralt
Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. Carol Moseley Braun
If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. Carol Moseley Braun
To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER. Bruce Rauner
What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway. Bill Robinson