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  • We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona. -- Mitt Romney
  • Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. -- George Will
  • Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red. -- Cecilia Bartoli
  • I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona. -- Jane D. Hull
  • The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations. -- Janet Napolitano
  • Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. -- Jane D. Hull
  • I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes. -- Michael Biehn
  • I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer. -- Jane D. Hull
  • The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four. -- Keith Hernandez
  • I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place. -- Terri Windling
  • Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget. -- Jane D. Hull
  • Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. -- Jack Adams
  • Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona. -- Will Rogers
  • Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before. -- Jane D. Hull
  • I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' -- Jim Kolbe
  • Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. -- Jane D. Hull
  • I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project. -- Janet Napolitano
  • Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts. -- J. D. Hayworth
  • We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects. -- Janet Napolitano
  • For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan. -- John Shadegg
  • These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities. -- John Shadegg
  • Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona -- Rick Renzi
  • Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know. -- Charles Kuralt
  • Arizona has always been anti-black. -- Paul Mooney
  • Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. -- Jan Brewer
  • Arizona changes its state motto to Damn, it's hot. -- Greg Proops
  • I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona. -- John McCain
  • Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you. -- Janette Rallison
  • Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona. -- Ernst Happel
  • Get my kush in California, Get my dro from Arizona -- Lil Wayne
  • I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
  • Arizona is a red state, and we're going to keep it red. -- Jan Brewer
  • The only way to get around Arizona is by small private plane. -- Cindy McCain
  • Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long. -- Dar Williams
  • Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland. -- Edward Abbey
  • Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona. -- Maynard James Keenan
  • As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona. -- Clive Sinclair
  • My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. -- Edward Abbey
  • The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves. -- Carlos Santana
  • I'm not interested in Vice President. I'm hanging around Arizona. I'm running again for Sheriff. -- Joe Arpaio
  • You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. -- Robert Ballard
  • Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. -- Jane D. Hull
  • Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song. -- Tori Amos
  • I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around. -- John Goodman
  • Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth. -- Donald Trump
  • There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake. -- Stewart Udall
  • You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. -- Paul Johnson
  • I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. -- Gabrielle Giffords
  • Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business. -- Jan Brewer
  • I am Hualapai. We are located in Northern Arizona, at the Grand Canyon. We own the Skywalk area. -- Kiowa Gordon
  • I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win. -- Larry Fitzgerald
  • I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. -- Dennis Farina
  • The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something. -- Robert Benchley
  • I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place. -- Jennifer Rubin
  • Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime. -- Rich Lowry
  • In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place. -- Ben Quayle
  • If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. -- Mark McKinnon
  • Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007. -- Russell Pearce
  • My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him. -- Clint Eastwood
  • In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona. -- Ann Coulter
  • Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real? -- Kyrsten Sinema
  • Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be. -- Jan Brewer
  • No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side. -- Russell Pearce
  • I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that. -- Jon Kyl
  • Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president. -- John McCain
  • A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now. -- Craig Ferguson
  • I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie. -- Larry Bishop
  • My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world. -- Chelsea Kane
  • My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody. -- Bob Dylan
  • It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature. -- Tim Kaine
  • I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction. -- Jan Brewer
  • Arizona just became the 15th state to approve medical marijuana. So I give it three days before they stop caring about the whole immigration thing. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. -- Barack Obama
  • We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic. -- Carl E. Olson
  • I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job. -- Rick Perry
  • I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns. -- Janet Varney
  • Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do. -- Blake Shelton
  • I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch - or maybe you're the governor of Arizona. -- Craig Ferguson
  • Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation -- Mother Jones
  • Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. -- Mary Harris Jones
  • When I used to drive on the road from L. A., one time in Arizona we went off-road to see what weird little towns are around. Loved Bisbee. -- Doug Stanhope
  • Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state. -- Rick Renzi
  • It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world. -- Larry Fitzgerald
  • Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble. -- Edward Abbey
  • I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking. -- Jan Brewer
  • What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? -- Edward Abbey
  • The state that has a very, very special place in my heart. I love people of Arizona and together we are going to win the White House in November. -- Donald Trump
  • In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona. -- Russ Feingold
  • I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses. -- M.G. Hardie
  • The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them. -- Jane D. Hull
  • In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens. -- Mo Brooks
  • If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens. -- Jan Brewer
  • We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources. -- Jan Brewer
  • Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience. -- James Ellroy
  • A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows? -- Stephen Moyer
  • Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction. -- George Will
  • The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers. -- Brenda Peterson
  • Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos. -- Erma Bombeck
  • I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better. -- Nicole Richie
  • I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states. -- Baron Vaughn
  • Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat. -- Emma Stone
  • I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college. -- Will Ferrell
  • My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind. -- Kate Christensen
  • The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. -- Donald C. Peattie
  • So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue. -- Vicente Fox
  • To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from. -- Joe Carnahan
  • Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003. -- J. D. Hayworth
  • The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona. -- Al Gore
  • I didn't know much about the Mexican gray wolf before January 2011, when we contributed a flight in our Pilatus PC12 to the effort to re-establish the wolf in the forests of Arizona and New Mexico. -- Joy Covey
  • President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open borders, and you know it better than anybody right here in Arizona. -- Donald Trump
  • In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it. -- Russell Pearce
  • If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. -- Mona Charen
  • No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County. -- Edward Abbey
  • While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona. -- Kyrsten Sinema
  • The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are drafting, they're discussing drafting a proposal, to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries. -- Megyn Kelly
  • The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. -- Mary Harris Jones
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