3 Quotes by Robert Blagojevich

You turn in your passport and sign an affidavit attesting that you own no firearms. The calm and confidence you felt earlier disappears. These proceedings begin to make you feel like a criminal.

I have to ask the question: why weren’t Jackson, Nayak, and Bedi indicted instead of me? They offered the bribe. I was the guy who said no.

He had negotiated an immunity agreement for himself that protected him from future prosecution in exchange for his cooperation and testimony. In effect a legal quid pro quo – the same theory the government used in its indictment of me with charges of extortion and bribery. I will never understand why when a citizen allegedly does it, it’s illegal and when the government does it, it’s legal.