Alexi Giannoulias Quotes

• While I can’t promise you that I’m going to be a perfect candidate and I can’t promise you that I’m not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.

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• When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

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• We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There’s so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

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• One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there’s no lending, that it’s tough to get a loan today.

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• Look, the, the – this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we’re going to have to take our medicine.

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• It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

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• If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I’m for it.

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• I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That’s how much the bank meant to my father.

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• I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said ‘mobbed up family.’ That we were criminals. That kills me.

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• I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They’re losing their jobs, they’re losing their homes, they’re dealing with financial challenges.

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• Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I’m not comparing my situation or my family’s situations to theirs, the fact that my father’s business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people.

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• But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided – and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

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Alexi Giannoulias (12)

Birth:	16th March, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Alexander Giannoulias is an American politician who served as Illinois Treasurer from 2007 to 2011. A Democrat, Giannoulias defeated Republican candidate State Senator Christine Radogno in November 2006 with 54 percent of the vote, becoming the first Democrat to hold the office in 12 years and, at the age of 30, the youngest State Treasurer in the nation. On July 26, 2009, Giannoulias announced his candidacy in the 2010 election for the seat in the United States Senate held by Roland Burris. Burris, who was appointed by Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill the seat vacated by Barack Obama following Obama's election as President of the United States, chose not to seek election. Giannoulias won the Democratic primary on February 2, 2010, then faced Republican Mark Kirk as well as Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones and Libertarian Michael Labno in the general election in November 2010. Kirk won the election.

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