Styling Block Quotes

Hey folks,

I’m trying to style my blockquotes but I just can’t get them to work. This is the code I’ve added to CSS

blockquote {
	width: 700px;
	background-color: #f9f9f9;
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
	border-radius: 6px;
	box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #ccc;
	font-style: italic;
	padding: .25em 10px;
}

However I can NOT figure out how to get right of the quotation mark image in the top left corner. A huge amount of space is wasted because of it. Any suggestions to get rid of it would be much appreciated.

Here’s a link to a page with the block quote – CLICK

Cheers