Rod Blagojevich Quotes

• Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Education, Health

  Tags in Care

• Ask any woman and she’ll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Care

• Let’s put aside the politics and trust the people. Let’s embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we’re doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Better

• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful

• One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it’s hard to keep track of them.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Greatest

• Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Kids

• Our children’s health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Health

  Tags in School

• Parents don’t need government to raise their kids. That’s their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Help, Parents

• Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Help, Sense

• I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Education

• Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy

Rod Blagojevich (11)

Birth:	10th December, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Rod Blagojevich is an American former politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago. He was elected governor in 2002, the first Democrat to win the office since Daniel Walker's victory 30 years earlier.

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