Massachusetts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.
-- Deval Patrick -
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 -
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.
-- George W. S. Trow -
Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
And some sad news ... the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.
-- Jay Leno -
Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison's Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.
-- Jeffrey Toobin -
I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.
-- John F. Kerry -
I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.
-- Joseph P. Kennedy III -
My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.
-- Julia Child -
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.
-- Marty Meehan -
I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
-- Niall Ferguson -
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.
-- Paul Cellucci -
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 -
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
-- Richard Neal -
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.
-- Rob Zombie -
I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.
-- Robert Goulet -
And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.
-- Robert Goulet -
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
-- Sidney Altman -
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
-- Stacy Schiff -
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 -
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
-- Uwe Reinhardt -
I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
-- William Standish Knowles -
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.
-- Holly Sklar -
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 -
[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also drawn up by a special convention, and it provided for popular ratification - practices that were followed by the drafters of the federal Constitution of 1787 and subsequent state constitution-makers.
-- Gordon S. Wood -
It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.
-- Gordon S. Wood -
Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.
-- Jeffrey Toobin
