Rod Blagojevich on Rod Blagojevich
May 26, 2011 8:26PM
Updated: July 7, 2011 1:48PM
“I used to be your governor, and I’m here today to tell you the truth.”
“When I hear myself saying that on tape, I’m an effin’ jerk, and I apologize.”
“You are what you are, but I started wearing less polyester.”
“I had a man-crush on Alexander Hamilton.”
“I was the only governor in America who could spin a basketball on all five fingers of his right hand.”
“There are friends that you love in a real friend way, not in a — you know what I’m talking about. I love Lon.”
“I can’t say I came out of law school knowing much about law.”
“I saw him [Jesse Jackson Jr.], frankly, as Barack Obama.”
“I thought politics was a safe profession.”
“Those were the days when your hairbrush was an extension of your hand.”
On the Chicago Academy building: “I took the ACT exam there. Twice.”
To a prosecutor’s objection: “I knew that was going to happen.”
On asking Ald. Richard Mell if he could marry Patti: “I would have done it anyway.”
On his obsession with working out: “There’s a certain narcissism.”
Names Blagojevich dropped on the stand, some he bumped into while working in Malibu, some he met through politics: Michael Landon, Dyan Cannon, Olivia Newton-John, Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O’Neal, Cicily Tyson, Seinfeld writer Larry David, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sarah Palin
