We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer. Rod Blagojevich More Quotes by Rod Blagojevich More Quotes From Rod Blagojevich 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 trust politics opportunity people Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? Rod Blagojevich help will children people [Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act, that permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity. Rod Blagojevich My mother and father were working people, so they wound up in Chicago, like so many people from Central and Eastern Europe. Rod Blagojevich