Arizona Quotes

• The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

  Robert Benchley

  People, Desert, Bones

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• I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.

  Bill Richardson

  Hurt, Thinking, Issues

  "Bill Richardson: Latino Presidential Candidate Coming Soon". "Fox News Latino" with Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

  Jan Brewer

  Beautiful, Uranium Mining, States

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 22, 2012.

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• The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

  Jane D. Hull

  Country, Military, Needs

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• Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Technology, Cells

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• I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

  Dennis Farina

  Couple, Home, Years

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• Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

  Mother Jones

  Struggle, Work Out, Salvation

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• Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

  Rick Renzi

  Native American, Unique, Numbers

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• I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Never Quit, Pushing

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• Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Sunshine, Red, Gorgeous

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• Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  Jack Adams

  Couple, Chicago, Yards

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• I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

  Jim Kolbe

  Gay, Experts, Congress

  "Delegates consider boycott of Kolbe speech" by Jeff Barker, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

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• Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

  Jane D. Hull

  Challenges, Important, Faces

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• Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

  Jane D. Hull

  School, Construction, Innovative

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• The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

  Janet Napolitano

  Jobs, United States, Location

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• Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Protection, Reason

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• What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Clouds, June

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

  John Shadegg

  Essentials, Cards, Green

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• I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

  Michael Biehn

  Grew, Grew Up, Buddy

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• I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

  Janet Napolitano

  Long, United States, Would Be

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• For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

  John Shadegg

  Energy, Example, Algae

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• Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

  Jane D. Hull

  Children, School, Giving

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• Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona

  Rick Renzi

  Order, Fire, Waiting

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• The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

  Will Rogers

  Oasis, Grows, Just One

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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