“I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden, and I’m just not giving it

“I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden, and I’m just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I’m not gonna do it.”

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich

In a conversation intercepted by the FBI, regarding his opportunity to choose the replacement for Presdient-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat.

“It’s about greed. He’s got to be completely off his rocker to be talking like that at a time when he knows the feds are looking at him. ... He’s out there like he’s talking to his wife in bed.”

Don Rose

A longtime political strategist in Chicago, on Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s conversations as recorded by the FBI, who says Blagojevich plotted to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat for cash or a lucrative job for himself.

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