Ohio Quotes

• Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

  Will Rogers

  Pregnancy, Government, President

  "How we elect our Presidents". Book by Will Day, p. 9, 1952.

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• Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

  Ethel Waters

  Mohawks, Columbus, Mysterious

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• What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.

  Bob Taft

  Unique, Cities, Quality

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• I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

  Kenneth Koch

  Mother, Cincinnati Ohio, Literature

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• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  George Andrew Olah

  Summer, Responsibility, Academic Life

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• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Army, Blue

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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• After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Hard Work, Years

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• We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

  Ken Blackwell

  Squares, Geography, Miles

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.

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• The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  People, Voting, Denial

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• Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

  Sherrod Brown

  Two, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Monsters, Giants

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

  Roy Rogers

  Agriculture, Littles, Miles

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• I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

  Ed O'Neill

  Girl, Sports, Football

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• I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

  Ken Blackwell

  Running, Support, Welcome

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• I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

  Piper Perabo

  College, Years, Two

  "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow" with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Years, Cleveland

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• It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

  George Galloway

  College, Hype, President

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• I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Clark Gable

  Lucky, Right Time, Happened

  "The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.

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• Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

  Sherrod Brown

  Mean, News, Minimum Wage

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• And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

  Patricia Heaton

  Ohio State, Journalism, States

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• I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

  Nina Blackwood

  Littles, Grew Up, Grew

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

  Neil Armstrong

  Memories, Boys, Long

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• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  Ted Strickland

  Jobs, Virginia, People

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• There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

  William Howard Taft

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  Speech before the Ohio Society, Washington, D.C. "Congressional Record", Volume 53, p. 8527, May 23, 1916.

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• It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Girl, Country, Morning

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