Minnesota Quotes - Page 3

• Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Quality, Way, Reform

  "Klobuchar, Franken outline specifics on their health-care views". Interview with Cynthia Dizikes, www.minnpost.com. September 02, 2009.

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• My family has loved Minnesota and that was one of the big reasons we decided to come back. For me, family decisions were a big part to coming back to the Twins.

  Jim Thome

  Decision, Twins, My Family

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

  Carl Pohlad

  Baseball, Commitment, League

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• I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.

  Mark Batterson

  Kids, Fans, Wisconsin

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• On October 31, 2004, the Minnesota Timberwolves offered Sprewell a 3-year, $21 million contract extension, substantially less than what his then-current contract paid him. Claiming to feel insulted by the offer, he publicly expressed outrage, declaring, “I have a family to feed If Glen Taylor wants to see my family fed, he better cough up some money. Otherwise, you're going to see these kids in one of those Sally Struthers commercials soon.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Kids, Years, October

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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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• 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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• 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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• Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open seat in the 6th (Congressional) District, a state legislature that is closely divided, and a state that was very competitive in 2000 and 2004 and is likely to be again in 2008.

  Ken Mehlman

  Race, Competition, Important

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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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• The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's just Tasmania.' The second time I came, some nut shot up Columbine High School. Now I'm here again, and another nut just shot up a high school in Minnesota. If you can't see the connection between me playing the Comedy Festival and mass murder, you're no good at conspiracy theories.

  Rich Hall

  School, Nuts, People

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• Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

  Al Franken

  Two, Proud, Tradition

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop.

  Billy Gardell

  New Year, Years, America

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• Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Player, Flip

  Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

  Bob Dylan

  Cities, Mind, Mexico

  "Jack Kerouac" by Alison Behnke, (p. 100), 2007.

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• Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

  Gena Lee Nolin

  Girl, Hard Work, Up Early

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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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• Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.

  Michele Bachmann

  Boards, Natural, Legislature

  Edwatch Conference, October 10-11, 2003.

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• I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.

  Anna Wintour

  People, House, Littles

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• It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.

  Al Michaels

  Nbc, Bills, Buffalo

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• I played seven years in Minnesota and I'm looking forward to a better, greater seven years down in Miami. I'm back home. It's great.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Home, Seven Years, Miami

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• A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

  James E. Myers

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

  Denis McDonough

  Catholic, Proud, Grew Up

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