New Hampshire Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

  John Irving

  Moving, Hampshire, Hotel

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  Barbra Streisand

  Falling In Love, Color, House

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• People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

  John Sununu

  Issues, People, Hampshire

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• From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Race, Class

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• Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Jesus, People, Earth

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• We all love each other, Ange," I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. "No, not like this," she went on relentlessly. "Fang loves you."......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? "Forget it! No one's getting married!" I hissed. "Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35

  James Patterson

  Hate, Love You, Sleep

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• Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

  Howard Dean

  New York, Oklahoma, Texas

  Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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• For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.

  Matt Kenseth

  Dream, Winning, Firsts

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• I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

  Judd Gregg

  Thinking, Car, Upset

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• The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government can't make you say what you don't believe. He looks to a Supreme Court case that began in New Hampshire.

  Laura Sydell

  Believe, Writing, Iphone

  "Apple's First Amendment Argument". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 26, 2016.

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• No one ever expect me to get in the race. They didn't think I would get on the debate stage. I did. They didn't think I'd do well in New Hampshire. I finished second. And so we went to South Carolina. In a short period of time later, two weeks ago people in South Carolina had no clue who I was.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Race, Two

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• We are having the 100th anniversary of 2015 year of the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. And these voters take their responsibility very seriously. They like to kick the tires. They get the most up close and personal look in the entire arc of the campaign at the candidates. And debates are time consuming.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Years, Voters

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction, ... I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Air, Challenges

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• I'm originally from a town called Ipswich. I currently live in Newburyport. It's a port city, so I'm right on a river. It's really close to New Hampshire; I can pretty much throw a rock. I like where I'm from.

  Melissa Ferrick

  Rocks, Cities, Rivers

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• The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate - you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer - the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Discipline

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• The God who made New Hampshire
  Taunted the lofty land
  With little men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.509, Harvard University Press

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• Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Artist, Umbria, Years

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Weekend, Rocks

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?

  Jay Leno

  Night, Long, Lasts

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• So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  July, I Have A Dream Speech, Hampshire

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on gravity. That's the way they do it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Believe, Boston

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.

  Rob Lowe

  Summer, Adaptation, Release

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.

  Tom Rush

  Guitar, People, Office

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• Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

  Jay Leno

  Philosophical, Loss, Yesterday

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• I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject matter was so bizarre, and yet it was the most sought-after part at that moment. And then it had the good fortune to come out on the same day as Splash.

  Rob Lowe

  Memories, Directors, Matter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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