Rod Blagojevich — now also known as federal prisoner number 40892-424 — starts serving his 14-year sentence for corruption on Thursday. As Blagojevich heads off to the Big House, here’s POLITICO’s look back at 10 of his “f—-in’ golden” quotes:

1.“I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.” – in an interview with Esquire magazine for its February 2010 issue. (Blagojevich apologized on Jan. 10, 2010, calling the comment “stupid, stupid, stupid. It was a metaphor. I was speaking metaphorically. Obviously I’m not blacker than President Obama.”)