Massachusetts Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

  Julia Child

  Mother, Independent, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Sitting, Records

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• [Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.

  Newt Gingrich

  Years, Political, Culture

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• Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

  Deval Patrick

  Jobs, Fixed, Fine

  "Deval Patrick DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.

  Jonathan Richman

  Travel, Past, Night

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• Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

  People, Alternatives, Tonight

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• Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history of the English constitution. In 1779, he had an opportunity to try out his ideas by framing the Massachusetts constitution.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Country, Reading, Opportunity

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I don't know if I ever mentioned back in 2002 we fought our way into a governor's debate in Massachusetts where, you know, this was televised and I articulated our usual agenda: cut the military, put the dollars into true security here at home, provide healthcare as a human right, raise wages which needed to be living wages, green our energy system, equal marriage? - we were the only ones talking about it back in 2002.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Home, Cutting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The Massachusetts constitution was written much later than the other revolutionary state constitutions, and thus it avoids some of the earlier mistakes. The executive is stronger, with a limited veto; the senate is more formidable; and the judiciary is independent.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Mistake, Independent, Stronger

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Office, Risk

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Growing Up, Islands, Nantucket

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.

  Holly Sklar

  June, Minimum Wage, Firsts

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• I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.

  Dorothea Dix

  Strong, Real, Men

  "Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts". Book by Dorothea L. Dix, 1843.

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• I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Abolition Of Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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• Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

  John Hodgman

  Cult Of Personality, People, Giving

  "INTERVIEW Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, Engineering

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• The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

  George W. S. Trow

  Men, Twenties, Bottles

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• I noted, though, that other strong critics of Donald Trump did attend the inauguration. Hillary Clinton went. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders went. I saw Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. I saw Congressman James Clyburn, all of whom have been critics of Donald Trump.

  Michel Martin

  Strong, Vermont, Saws

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.

  Lucy Stone

  Law, Practice, Missing

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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• Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Practice, Looks, Gerrymandering

  "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.

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