“I have done nothing wrong. And I’m not going to quit a job that people hired me to do

“I have done nothing wrong. And I’m not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob. I will fight. I will fight. I will fight until I take my last breath.”

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich

Addressing the public for the first time since his arrest for scheming to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat.

“I’ve been in this business for 40 years and there was never a more standup guy. ... He didn’t take nothing from nobody. He was very much ahead of his time.”

Former agent Tom Reich

On pitcher Dock Ellis, who died Friday. He was 63.