Arizona Quotes - Page 2

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

Michael Biehn

Grew, Grew Up, Buddy

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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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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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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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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 changes its state motto to Damn, it's hot.

Greg Proops

Hot, Motto, States

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When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?

Wanda Sykes

New York, Gay, California

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In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

Theodore Roosevelt

Natural Wonders, World, Kind

Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.128, Cornell University Press

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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

Charles Kuralt

Country, Spring, Tombstone

Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Kings, Queens, Water

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Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch - or maybe you're the governor of Arizona.

Craig Ferguson

Mean, Littles, Cinco De Mayo

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In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

Ann Coulter

Jobs, Government, Class

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You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the border, and you've got people being killed now in Arizona. They are at their wits' end. Enforcing the law is the overall thing, and if there are some civil rights violations, so be it. That's how desperate the situation is. They want the law anyway.

Rush Limbaugh

Rights, Law, Drug Cartels

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America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

George Will

Baseball, Spring, Florida

"Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

Craig Ferguson

Mexico, Used, Touchy

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In a recent interview, John McCain addressed Trump's campaign rally in Arizona and said that he just quote, 'fired up the crazies.' Not to be confused with Trump's show 'Celebrity Apprentice,' where he just FIRED the crazies.

Jimmy Fallon

Confused, Campaigns, Interviews

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I chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time when you're recording and to not have the whole thing be some sort of editing process in front of a computer, but to actually try and capture some sort of spirit.

Joel Plaskett

Opportunity, Editing, People

Source: www.coltoneddy.com

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You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

Paul Johnson

Mass Transit, Looks, Look Up

"You Know You're an Arizona Native, When". Book by Don Dedera, 1993.

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But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

Jan Brewer

Believe, Years, America

Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 27, 2010.

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