Hampshire Quotes

• Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Shoes, Gold Teeth

  Attributed in N.Y. Times, 6 Dec. 1925

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• I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

  Pat Toomey

  Running, Thinking, President

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• It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Community, Olympics, Homecoming

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• People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

  John Sununu

  Issues, People, Knows

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• I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

  Steven Tyler

  Friends, Beautiful, Winter

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• I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

  Judd Gregg

  Thinking, Car, Upset

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• First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

  Ed Helms

  Weekend, Years, Three

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 -.

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• This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

  Adam Sandler

  Brother, Children, Growing Up

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• The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

  Robert Frost

  Mountain, Curls, Vermont

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fire, Safety, Massachusetts

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• In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

  Dick Gephardt

  Light, Iowa, Tuesday

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• I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

  Jackie Mason

  Country, Winning, Ideas

  "Everything Bold Is New Again: An Interview with Jackie Mason". Interview with Bernard Chapin, spectator.org. April 18, 2007.

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• I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Brother, Nuts, People

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  Barbra Streisand

  Falling In Love, Color, House

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• Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Light, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I have heard what a big problem mental health is in New Hampshire? Would I have heard people say they're really worried about the impact on young people because New Hampshire has the highest tuition and debt problems in the country? i'm not sure I would have.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Book, Health

  "Welcome to Hillary Clinton's classroom" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2015.

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• The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government can't make you say what you don't believe. He looks to a Supreme Court case that began in New Hampshire.

  Laura Sydell

  Believe, Writing, Iphone

  "Apple's First Amendment Argument". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 26, 2016.

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• As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.

  Matt Labash

  Winning, Naps, Personality

  "Making Political Trouble". www.weeklystandard.com. January 28, 2008.

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• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

  Nate Silver

  Mistake, Missing, Problem

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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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• The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?

  Jay Leno

  Night, Long, Lasts

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• There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

  Eliza Coupe

  Thinking, People, Groups

  "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ interview, www.ucbcomedy.com.

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• Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

  Jay Leno

  Philosophical, Loss, Yesterday

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• The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Work, Years

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• We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.

  Sarah Wright

  People, Mind, Important

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