Quotes About Illinois

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I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

In every community in Illinois, same-sex couples have chosen to join together and, in many instances, to raise families of their own. These couples are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, co-workers and parents of our children's classmates. They deserve the same rights and responsibilities that civil marriage offers straight couples.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

Illinois preschoolers were temporarily saved from the debilitating effects of cereal and milk.

Just as I had in Illinois, I tried to do what I could to influence policy at the margins, pushing modest, nonpartisan measures—funding to safeguard against a pandemic outbreak

It's the only way that Democrats can win in Illinois, is to say, 'Oh, Kirk has health problems, he's going to retire.' For Democrats looking at a minority life and seeing that they cannot win in Illinois is so frustrating that they will just assume away any issue. They'll just say to willing reporters, 'I think Kirk is going to retire.'

Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

Families in Illinois don't want lies and political mudslinging.

I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

I grew up in Illinois.

We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.

Illinois has severe budget problem. You cannot cut your way out of the problem.

I'm the longest-serving secretary of state in Illinois, but I also want to go down in history as one of the best they've ever had. I will work every day toward that.

It affects you when you get shot at, when your children get shot at. In our case, we had one shooter, a guy from Illinois mad that Trump won, and decided to come to Washington and shoot GOP congressmen.

I was the Richard Gere non-lookalike in Illinois.

I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care.

Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.