Top 274 Illinois Quotes & Sayings

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

I was the Richard Gere non-lookalike in Illinois.

Illinois has commonsense regulations on concealed carry permits. For example, if you had two or more D.U.I.'s within five years, within the past five years, you do not have the right in Illinois to obtain a concealed weapons permit.

I went to DePaul University Theatre School in Chicago, Illinois.

I hate Illinois Nazis.

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.

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

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the music. One of my dad's buddies was the avant-garde composer John Cage, so I picked up on that weird classical and eclectic music.

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

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

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

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.

Illinois had the first aquarium built in Chicago. The very first skyscraper in the entire world was built in Chicago in 1885. The tallest building in North America, formerly the Sears Tower, now Willis Tower, is in Chicago. Evanston, home to Northwestern, is also home to the ice cream sundae. Illinois has a lot to be proud of.

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois.

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.

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.'

Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidence from his pre-war lawyering days is that he had little objection to the rise of corporations. As a state legislator, he had strongly favored the creation of an Illinois state bank, as well as sponsoring the chartering of public/private corporations like the Illinois Central Railroad.

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

I grew up in Illinois.

Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

It's not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.

We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.

Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.

My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

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

The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections. They got into the database.

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

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.

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

I grew up in Illinois. If you were in Chicago, you were a Democrat. You get out to the suburbs and central Illinois, you're a Republican.

I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Unfortunately, business was good. Among the usual suspects were government contracts steered to insiders - leaving Illinois taxpayers holding the bag.

Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.

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

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

Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average person doesn't know really what's going on in the pension system. They know their taxes are too high; they know we've got a deficit. But getting that message out and helping the people of Illinois really understand what's going on, that's hard.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

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

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

I'm from Oklahoma, and Nick's from a small town in Illinois.

Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.

I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state for ethics.

I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.

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

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

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