18 Quotes by Mike Lawrence

People were surprised about the amount of money. But there was sort of a sense if he gave us our share, what's wrong with him getting his share.

I focused on the negative - I was concerned about him and his family. From my perspective, he had spent eight years working tremendously hard as governor. He's got more time to spend with his family.

He made ethics a major deal and he's going to be held to account for any indications that his administration is not highly ethical and associates of his have made use of the relationship with him and others in the administration.

It is amazing that more of these folks don't know the details or even the broader sweeps in the Ryan case. My sense is they aren't being disingenuous; it's just a matter that they have other things going on in their lives. Attention spans are not as long as they once were.

Our church was the big, huge suburban church that thought they could get things done by only using money.

Paul did a lot of good things for southern Illinois, including helping to build the university I work at.

My purpose in visiting with them (this week) was to alert them to the need.

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

We don't know for sure that Gov. Blagojevich is Official A. Even if he is Official A, it does not mean that he necessarily had knowledge of what is being alleged.