Quotes of: Illinois Keyword

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

Jerry Costello

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Carol Moseley Braun

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

Jerry Costello

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

Laurie Metcalf

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

June Squibb

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

Tom Morello

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

Dick Durbin

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.

Bruce Rauner

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Sarah Dessen

Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.

Bill Dedman

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

Eddie Vedder

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

Nick Offerman

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jan Schakowsky

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

Bill Moseley

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

James R. Thompson

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

Stephen Tobolowsky

If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.

Cheri Bustos

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

Tom Vilsack

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Alice Hamilton

Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.

Jerry Costello