Arizona Quotes - Page 6

• I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Beautiful, Moving, Gay

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• Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one example in Arizona where a business owner’s religious liberty has been violated. The bill was broadly worded - and could result in unintended and negative consequences. After weighing all the arguments I have vetoed Senate Bill 1062 moments ago.

  Jan Brewer

  Religious, Gay, Liberty

  "Jan Brewer: 'So Is Nondiscrimination'" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. February 27, 2014.

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• Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse.” “Clarisse?” “Sibling of yours,” Hedge said. “Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.

  Rick Riordan

  Sibling, Kids, Rude

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• ...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.

  Al Gore

  Science, Moon, People

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• I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

  Nicole Richie

  College, Years, Two

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• Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona.

  Ernst Happel

  Wealth, Policy, Huge

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• I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Jobs, Tombstone

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• I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

  Emma Stone

  Kings, School, Rights

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• Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

  James Ellroy

  Men, Blood, Envy

  FaceBook post by James Ellroy from Jan 20, 2015

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• Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Home, Forests, Edges

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 13, 2006.

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• I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

  Will Ferrell

  Couple, School, College

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• What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

  Alice Cooper

  Golf, Play, Scotland

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• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Issues, Long

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• It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.

  Jan Brewer

  Mean, Law, Police

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• Intel announced it will move ahead with a new plant in Arizona that probably was never going to move ahead with, and that will result in at least so - in at least 10,000 American jobs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Moving, Plant

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Police, Borders

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• President Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open borders, and you know it better than anybody right here in Arizona. You know it.

  Donald Trump

  People, Safety, President

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech", www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2017.

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• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Creativity, Golf

  "Arizona 20 Years: Jack Nicklaus". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Progress, Care, March

  "Case Closed". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.motherjones.com. March 16, 2009.

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• I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Weekend, Giving, Trying

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger Jokes About Arizona In Emory Commencement Speech: They’d Deport Me". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Now, now," Bast said. "It's not so bad." "Right," I said. "We're stuck in Washington, D.C. We have two days to make it to Arizona and stop a god we don't know how to stop. And if we can't, we'll never see our dad or Amos again, and the world might end." "That's the spirit!" Bast said brightly. "Now, let's have a picnic.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Two, World

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

  Adam Rex

  Stupid, Bed, Twenties

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black

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• Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be.

  Jan Brewer

  United States, Discrimination, Illegal

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

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• Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.

  George Will

  Country, Law, States

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• America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

  George Will

  Government, America, Immigration

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