Quotes of the Day
Monday, Jan. 11, 2010
I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shine shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in the black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.
- ROD BLAGOJEVICH,
- former Illinois governor, in an interview with Esquire; he later apologized for his comment
Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast / AP | Source: Esquire