Pennsylvania Quotes - Page 3

• The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Qualms

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• I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.

  Zelda Rubinstein

  People, Southern, Way

  Source: movieweb.com

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• In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Apology, Printing Money, Busy

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter V, "Of Paper," p. 54, 1975.

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• Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It’s like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.

  Maureen Dowd

  Russia, Use, Village

  "Wilting Over Waffles" by Maureen Dowd, archive.nytimes.com. April 25, 2008.

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• To me, the logical path then is where could have [Mitt] Romney maybe have won and didn't? And you look at Ohio, Florida. You're still not there. Now you have got to win either Pennsylvania or Michigan. And I think Pennsylvania is probably a little bit more doable than Michigan, but, again, neither one of those states have the Republicans won since 1988.

  John Brabender

  Winning, Thinking, Florida

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

  John Piper

  Mother, Gasoline, Mouths

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• I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

  Victoria Legrand

  Girl, Coffee, School

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

  Britta Phillips

  School, Brooklyn, Bucks

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  New York, Dad, Wall

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Numbers, America

  CNBC Undercard GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I think in theory, Donald Trump could be a formidable candidate, right? The theory of him is, if he ignites working class white voters, he can put Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, states like Ohio in play for the Republicans.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Ohio, Class

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

  Bill Gates

  Horse, Dark, Race

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.

  Christine Jennings

  Moving, Southern, Village

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

  David Lynch

  Philadelphia, Influence, Painter

  Interview With Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2007.

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• I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

  James Longstreet

  Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Long

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• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

  Bil Keane

  Real, Inspiration, Cartoon

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• Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Aliens, Language, Should

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.320

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• [Donald] Trump has made this a big issue. He's leading in Ohio. He's leading, right up there in Pennsylvania, 1-point difference, and people are responding because the people's instincts are correct. This is what I believe.

  Jeff Sessions

  Believe, Differences, Issues

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• The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem for the party is, you can't get there from here. You can't start out where the current Republicans are and win back those places. To me, what you have to do is create a different Republican Party that can win in those places.

  David Brooks

  Party, Winning, Oregon

  "Shields and Brooks on Obama in the Mideast, GOP in Overhaul". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

  Charlie McDermott

  Children, Home, Actors

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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Illinois, Rhode Island, Islands

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Son, Biden, Knows

  "Transcript: Bob Casey". www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  New York, People, September 11

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• In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside.

  Troy Polamalu

  Mountain, Resorts, Visiting

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• I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

  Ed Rendell

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

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