Minnesota Quotes - Page 2

• I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

  Al Franken

  Nice, Fighting, Rights

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• I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

  Thomas Friedman

  Optimistic, Mean, Who I Am

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Years, Law

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• I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that.

  Jesse Ventura

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

  Michele Norris

  Ipods, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Inspiration, School

  Time, September 11, 1995.

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• We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened.

  Keith Ellison

  Winning, Stranger, Happened

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.

  Garrison Keillor

  Yesterday, Puff, Waste

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• It was just the best thing in my life, to come to Minnesota.

  Thomas Vanek

  Best Things

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• Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want to buy a painting that would constantly remind them of the bone-chilling cold, the heavy snow that had to be shoveled, and the necessity of dressing up in survival gear to do nothing more than take out the garbage?

  Joanne Fluke

  Art, Winter, Dressing Up

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.120, Kensington Books

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• If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.

  Harry S. Truman

  Moving, Snow, May

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• I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Home, Animal, Land

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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• Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

  Diablo Cody

  Clothes, Knows

  Diablo Cody (2005). “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper”, p.11, Penguin

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• I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Children, Years

  "'Hannity' Primary Part 2: Michele Bachmann". www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2011.

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• I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.

  Billy Graham

  College, Boston, Years

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• Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent? What do we need -- that sort of person who can truly independently represent Minnesota, or something else?.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Independent, Needs, Alliances

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• I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, States, Congress

  "'Hannity' Primary Part 2: Michele Bachmann". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2011.

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• As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Wall, Men

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• I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday.

  Curt Young

  Running, Home, Kids

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• The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

  Al Franken

  Way, States, Democratic

  "Franken Declares Victory in Minnesota Senate Race". Minnesota senate race speech, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 30, 2009.

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• In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Night, Years

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.185, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Years, Two

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• I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.

  Cherie Priest

  Cheer, Fall, Mean

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.116, Spectra

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• I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

  Jesse Ventura

  Successful, Thinking, Government

  "Interview: Jesse Ventura biography". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I mean, I think we are a better team than last year offensively, but there is always a question with the Minnesota Twins. We'll just have to wait and see.

  Torii Hunter

  Team, Mean, Thinking

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