Wisconsin Quotes

• We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

  Scott Walker

  Mean

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• It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

  Scott Walker

  Moving, Differences, Working Together

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• My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

  Paul Ryan

  Brother, Dad, Thinking

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

  Jessica Szohr

  Soccer, Yoga, Snowboarding

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Men, America

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  Laurel Clark

  Beautiful, Memories, Motherhood

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• I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

  John Warren Kindt

  Hate, Mistake, Gambling

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• Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

  Ron Kind

  Home, College, Careers

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• If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

  Dar Williams

  Attitude, Crunchy, Can Do

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• If someone at Fleet Farm offers you assistance and they don't work there you might live in Wisconsin.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Might, Offers, Farms

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• With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

  Jim Doyle

  Jobs, Lying, Moving

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• I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to LA when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

  Jacob Latimore

  Grandmother, Views, Years

  "Exclusive: Jacob Latimore talks Black Nativity and Maze Runner". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. November 26, 2013.

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• In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Brother, Ideas, Years

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.34, Library of America

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• Obama says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.

  Mitt Romney

  Teacher, Stupid, Cutting

  "Romney doesn't get that cops and teachers are Americans, too" by Roland Martin, edition.cnn.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.

  Gwen Moore

  Cute, Hard Work, Fighting

  "The Struggle Continues: The Wisconsin Labor Movement One Year Later" by Rep. Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.

  Mark Millar

  Stars, War, Kids

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

  Willem Dafoe

  Boys, Squares, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of cheese to go through the roof.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Middle East, Rising

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• I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

  Joe Lando

  Thinking, Illinois, Hiking

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• Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Two, Popular Vote, Pennsylvania

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Judging, Congress

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• Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

  Dennis Miller

  Lying, Cheesy, Washington Dc

  "America's Cheesiest Ex-Cop". Interview with Elena Ferretti, www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2010.

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• There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

  Scott Walker

  Illinois, Starks, Contrast

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Girl, Baby, Grandmother

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Real, Dark, Winter

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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