Indiana Quotes - Page 5

• When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Leader, Proud, Firsts

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• If my mother were running for president and talked about a Muslim ban, I'd call her a bigot. If my mother claimed she didn't know who David Duke was when I knew she did, I'd say that's disqualifying. If my mother called an Indiana judge a Mexican, I would say that's a bigoted remark.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Mother, Running, Judging

  Source: wwd.com

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• I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Thinking, Mafia

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• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  Adam Driver

  California, Towns, Six

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Adam Driver". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. August 12, 2009.

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

  Greg Kinnear

  Kids, Ideas, Order

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• Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.

  Harrison Ford

  Sorry, Dad, Doors

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• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  Gary Burton

  Years, Musician, Towns

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• Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.

  Dan Quayle

  Senior, Taken, Keys

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• As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.

  Evan Bayh

  Cutting, Eight, Easy

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• Fans have always said that I would make a great Indiana Jones, a great Young Indiana Jones.

  Corey Feldman

  Fans, Said, Young

  "EXCLUSIVE: Corey Feldman Eyes the Role of Han Solo's Son in Star Wars: Episode VII" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

  Michelle Malkin

  New York, Construction Projects, Order

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• [After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.

  Harrison Ford

  Running, Dog, Hero

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Ark, Want, Lost

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• I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Long, Stronger, Steel

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, p. 84, 1977.

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• They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.

  Christine Jennings

  Moving, Southern, Village

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Isis, Size

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• That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

  Rhys Darby

  Character, Mean, Wicked

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.

  Will Cuppy

  Children, Thinking, Age

  "Do Fish Think, Really?". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.

  Cornel West

  Ocean, Expression, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Indiana's governor is coming under fire for a new law that some people feel is anti-gay. The governor now says he is not anti-gay. Then immediately afterwards he said, 'April Fools.' It wasn't his best joke.

  Conan O'Brien

  Gay, Fire, Law

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• I want to be the girl in Indiana Jones. I would love to do an adventure movie where I was saving the world. It might be cool if I used a lot of kitchen tools to fight off the enemy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Adventure, Fighting

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• Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

  Harrison Ford

  Ideas, Leather Jackets, Fedoras

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.

  Ray Winstone

  Eye, Tears, Lasts

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• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  Nathan Gamble

  Real, Hero, Hard Work

  "A Conversation with Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Nathan Gamble of 'Dolphin Tale'". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.catholic.org. September 20, 2011.

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• I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

  Carly Schroeder

  Girl, Mom, Moving

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