Massachusetts Quotes - Page 4

• On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, August, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.1

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• Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

  Mitt Romney

  Assault Weapons, Weapons, Assault

  "Mitt Romney,the gun-control candidate" by Alex Coppelman, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2012.

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• There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

  Jay Leno

  Names, America, Enemy

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• With the presidential debates right around the corner, John Kerry is going to play Mitt Romney to help the President prepare for the debates. That's kind of a stretch; a rich white guy from Massachusetts playing a rich white guy from Massachusetts.

  Jay Leno

  Play, White, Guy

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• If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

  Ed Schultz

  Dumb, Trying, Vote

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• Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink.

  Ann Coulter

  Victory, Rolling, Drink

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• They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Names, Numbers

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• Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

  Howie Carr

  Fighting, Winning, Years

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• Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Country, Jobs, Fall

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I noted, though, that other strong critics of Donald Trump did attend the inauguration. Hillary Clinton went. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders went. I saw Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. I saw Congressman James Clyburn, all of whom have been critics of Donald Trump.

  Michel Martin

  Strong, Vermont, Saws

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Massachusetts constitution was written much later than the other revolutionary state constitutions, and thus it avoids some of the earlier mistakes. The executive is stronger, with a limited veto; the senate is more formidable; and the judiciary is independent.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Mistake, Independent, Stronger

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Son, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Governor Romney has been a great success in business. He has been a great success as executive, as governor of Massachusetts. I think that's the kind of guy we want in the White House.

  Chris Christie

  Thinking, White, House

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• I don't know if I ever mentioned back in 2002 we fought our way into a governor's debate in Massachusetts where, you know, this was televised and I articulated our usual agenda: cut the military, put the dollars into true security here at home, provide healthcare as a human right, raise wages which needed to be living wages, green our energy system, equal marriage? - we were the only ones talking about it back in 2002.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Home, Cutting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Office, Risk

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Remember, we could solve this in a heartbeat with ranked-choice voting. The Democrats won't pass it. This allows you to rank your choices and eliminates the intimidation and the fear. They won't pass it; I know because I helped file the bill. Sixteen years ago in Massachusetts they could have solved the spoiler problem. They won't do it because they rely on fear. The fact that they rely on fear tells you something very important. They are not on your side. For that reason alone, they do not deserve your vote.

  Jill Stein

  Years, Your Side, Choices

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I did one of the worst shows for that kind of thing in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is one of the most liberal spots on the planet. There were numerous people who walked out, somebody had thrown a beer, I had people yelling and screaming.

  David Cross

  Beer, Yelling, People

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history of the English constitution. In 1779, he had an opportunity to try out his ideas by framing the Massachusetts constitution.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Country, Reading, Opportunity

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it.

  William Monahan

  Scotland, Intellectual, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.

  William Monahan

  Boys, Discovery, Boston

  Source: collider.com

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• I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Wish, Mexico

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.92, Xist Publishing

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• I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

  Eli Roth

  Gun, Iron, Rose

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Obamacare, People

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• I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

  Allen West

  Thinking, Work Out, Needs

  "Rep. West fired up over government overregulation". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2012.

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• The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

  Tom Wolfe

  Two, Three, Asking

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