County Quotes - Page 5

• You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change.

  Collin Peterson

  Lakes, Years, Pay

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm from rural Oregon, Yamhill County, a farm four miles out of a town of 1,000 people and that town is overwhelmingly pro-Trump.

  Tucker Carlson

  Oregon, People, Four

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.

  Keith Ellison

  Party, Cities, Levels

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

  John Lewis

  President, States, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].

  Rachel Martin

  Average, Class, Obamacare

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county from kindergarten. What an opportunity to edibly educate them. I don't just mean a glorified cooking class. I've never thought of it that way. I have always thought of it as a way to empower students to learn, to give them confidence, and to nourish them. So, I think the centerpiece has to be a free, sustainable school lunch for every child.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

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• By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting.

  Emma Stone

  Interesting, Different, Emotion

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I have a bit of a bucolic kind of upbringing, and so I certainly bring an amalgamation of different people that I've met over the course of my life, especially before moving to Los Angeles, so I guess my childhood was my homework in a lot of ways for Harlan County.

  Walton Goggins

  Moving, People, Childhood

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You're a white male living in America, brought up in one of the richest cities in the county, Palo Alto. You went to high school with Steve Jobs' daughter, and your journalism teacher is the mother-in-law of Sergey, co-founder of Google.

  James Franco

  Daughter, Teacher, School

  Source: i-d.vice.com

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• We have to have a shared prosperity. We have to make that our job number one. People want a better economic playing field for working Americans. And they're voting for it. Our job is to make sure that people know that the Democratic party is the party that is going to deliver that for them. And that means strengthening the grassroots. That means strengthening the local precinct county level and making sure that we're all channeled on massive turnout for that program.

  Keith Ellison

  Party, Mean, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Donald Trump wins 2,623 counties and Hillary Clinton with 489. You know how many counties independents won? Zero. Just like they always have. Not one county. Independents did not win one county. The exception to that, 1992 when Ross Perot won 15. The independents don't win anything. That's why I've always - the precious independents and the moderates and so forth. So much bohunk out there.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Clinton, Exception

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national level. I just don't think we can run away from it anymore.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think, first and foremost, showing up, making sure that Democrats focus not just on elections, not just on presidential elections, but we begin the process of rebuilding the infrastructure of the party at the grassroots. We begin going out to all those rural counties and begin having a conversation with rural voters and making sure that we hear their concerns, hear their complaints, and also educate them about what we are doing, making sure that we focus on state legislative races, not just congressional, Senate, governor, and presidential races.

  Tom Vilsack

  Party, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The prospect of Hillary Clinton not winning the presidency opens up a vast dark hole, an unknown, beyond which it is impossible to know what would happen to race relations or anything else we, as a county, want to improve. It has surprised me that Trump has done so well. I used to think the clamor for Trump was simply part of the rightwing backlash against eight years of President Obama. But perhaps it is that and more than that. There is a lot of suspicion, fear, mistrust, anger and hatred out there.

  Clarence Major

  Dark, Winning, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was this judgmental sense of what was good and what was bad in my father's words. You couldn't necessarily shut the people out who were not considered good. But on the other hand, as children we were told, you don't do those things, which means that you don't really mix with that crowd as much. You don't go to town on Saturday night and hang out and go to the beer parlors. Even though it was a dry county, there was plenty of moonshine and beer and liquor being brought in from other counties.

  David C. Driskell

  Children, Father, Mean

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Weekend, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he'll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn't have.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Believe, Two

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

  Cleve Jones

  Tired, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

  John Darnielle

  Media, Care, Stuff

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.

  Bill Ayers

  Couple, America, Jail

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.

  Gwen Stefani

  Fashion, Growing Up, Orange

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

  Edgar Wright

  Years, Outsiders, Wells

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of course those kids thought they were as tough as nails, they never expected to be dead but they're gone. It's kinda nice to walk out of the County Coroner's Office with a couple of sayings, you know? "You're not so tough being dead on a morgue table."

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Couple, Nice, Kids

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Sport used to play a phenomenal part in my life, because I used to play a lot of county sport, a lot of sport for my school. I love team sports. Talk about being with the boys. I love the camaraderie. That's why I like acting.

  Matthew William Goode

  Sports, Team, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

  Robert Morgan

  House, Isolation, Painter

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