Illinois Quotes: top 49 famous quotes about Illinois

Illinois Quotes & Sayings

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I hate Illinois Nazis. — John Belushi

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state. — Dick Van Dyke

Bounty hunting is illegal in Kentucky, Oregon, Illinois, and Wisconsin. — Bill O'Neill

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians. — Bill Dedman

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

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

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers. — John Shimkus

Things are more like they are now ... than they have EVER been before! — Uncle Arnie Mamath

I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate. — Mark Kirk

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

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

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

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — George Ryan

I still think of myself as from Illinois. — Alison Krauss

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black ... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent. — Godfrey

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 the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. — Bill Dedman

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children. — Bruce Rauner

National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents, — Barack Obama

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

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

I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert. — Stephen Colbert

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no. — Natasha Leggero

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

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

Arden Shore Camp in Lake Bluff, Illinois, a camp for poor children and those at risk for delinquency. — Joan Wehlen Morrison

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

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer. — John O'Hara

Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no sense. — David Foster Wallace

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

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979. — George Will

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor. — David Letterman

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

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

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois. — Lydia Davis

After five years of military occupation, the French population of Illinois was exhausted and bewildered. — Daniel Royot

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

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. — Carol Moseley Braun

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

In Stockton, Illinois, — Jamie Gilson