Massachusetts Quotes - Page 5

• Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

  Rob Zombie

  Witch Trials, Average, Analyzing

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

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• Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.

  Ben Affleck

  Funny, New Year, Gay

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• My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, New York

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• This is an issue just like 9/11. We didn’t decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us. And if not now, when? When the supreme courts in all the other states have succumbed to the Massachusetts version of the law?

  Rick Santorum

  War, Fighting, Law

  "10 Outrageous Things Rick Santorum Has Said". The Morning Call, www.thedailybeast.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

  Deval Patrick

  Two, Years, Next

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• The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  Joe Conason

  Mother, New York, Divorce

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• The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

  Mike Wallace

  Boston, Russia, Rose

  "Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Political, Tea

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Different, Size

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

  Dick Cheney

  Attitude, Issues, Doubt

  "Cheney Speech Upsets Westminster Prez" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2004.

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• I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ohio, California, Youth

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• I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Born, Thirteen

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• I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  Camille Paglia

  Strong, New York, Military

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• And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

  Mitt Romney

  Love, Jobs, Children

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• Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, New Job, Incentives

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• I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Careers, Differences

  New Hampshire Republican presidential debate sponsored by Meet the Press and Facebook, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2011.

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• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Race, Achievement

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• And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Advice, Might

  First presidential Obama-Romney debate at the University of Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Land, Community, Special

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• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

  Thomas Sowell

  Technology, Class, Mit

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• What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

  C.P. Snow

  Men, Thinking, People

  C. P. Snow (2013). “Science and Government”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Insane, Sin, Ifs

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• My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Kansas, Understanding

  Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robele, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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