Arkansas Quotes

• I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

  Molly Ivins

  Faith, Believe, Fingers

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• I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Rocks, Years

  Declaration, www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 1998.

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• Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

  Mike Huckabee

  Retail, States

  Interview with Tara McKelvey, www.marieclaire.com. June 14, 2007.

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• You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

  Mike Huckabee

  Jesus, Hero, Order

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Mom, Thinking, Kind

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

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• In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Issues, People

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• I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

  Pat Buchanan

  Mean, Thinking, West

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• A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

  Mike Huckabee

  Dog, West, Republican

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• I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Baby, Newspapers, County

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

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• The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Jobs, Community, African American

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• I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

  Ken Salazar

  Party, Rivers, Water

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• Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

  Mark Pryor

  People, Body

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• They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

  Mira Nair

  Mean, Cutting, America

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

  Gary Busey

  Doors, Together, Cooks

  "Gary Busey Is Almost as Crazy as Charlie Sheen". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.

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• It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

  Alan Cumming

  Gay, Boys, Thinking

  "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Real, Men

  "5-year-old descendant of Davy Crockett kills bear" by Heather Crawford, www.espn.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've got to translate it into a policy that leads to action.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, People, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Citizenship, Marshes

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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• I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Oklahoma, Texas, House

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• Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Grandmother, Clouds

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

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• If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them from the rice that they were producing in Haiti to feed themselves and other Caribbean nations? You put the rice industry out of business; and now rice is coming from Arkansas, chicken coming from Arkansas, when it once was growing right there in Haiti.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Black, Growing

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". Interview with DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee, www.finalcall.com. May 24, 2016.

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• Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

  John Lewis

  People, Rubies, Parks

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Way back in 1979, as a guest on a local TV show in Arkansas, then Hillary Rodham was quizzed about not taking her husband's last name when they got married and keeping her job as a lawyer while being first lady of the state.

  Tamara Keith

  Jobs, Husband, Names

  "The Disconnect Between The Public And Private Hillary Clinton". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. July 26, 2016.

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• Why did Hillary [Clinton] go to Arkansas? Why does she put up with it? In the beginning era of feminism she's considered one of the leading lights. Why does she put up with it? And the short answer is :She's nominated president, the Democrat Party candidate.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Light, Feminism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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