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Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate. -- Brian Sandoval
I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada. -- Tia Carrere
Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you. -- Drew Carey
People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone. -- Harry Reid
The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few. -- Mark Foley
Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector. -- Kenny Guinn
I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates. -- Mel Tillis
I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them. -- Brian Sandoval
As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada. -- Kenny Guinn
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. -- Harry Reid
I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses. -- Caroline Lawrence
I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory. -- Bill Richardson
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy. -- Kenny Guinn
Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada. -- James E. Rogers
Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. -- Jim Gibbons
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. -- Walter Wykes
I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined. -- Jon Porter
If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. -- Mark McKinnon
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute. -- James E. Rogers
Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country. -- Jon Porter
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid -- John Cornyn
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid. -- John Cornyn
When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada. -- Ruth Brown
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Over the weekend, John Kerry - the big John Kerry juggernaut moves on - he won primaries in Washington D.C., Nevada and, I think, Canada. And he's so confident that he's started nailing that intern again. -- David Letterman
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction. -- Hal Rothman
Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.' -- Annie Jacobsen
When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving? -- Wanda Sykes
The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist. -- Harry Reid
When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town. -- Emily Kinney
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles. -- Rachel Kushner
But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did. -- James Belushi
I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself. -- Raymond Carver
Nevada appeared to be a firewall for Hillary Clinton. -- Renee Montagne
I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly, -- Sharron Angle
I'm so proud to bring the title of Miss USA back to Nevada. -- Nia Sanchez
Nevada is poised to lead our nation in renewable development and we must harness those resources. -- Joe Heck
Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship. -- Dave Barry
The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not. -- Kenny Guinn
Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this? -- Grover Norquist
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics. -- Lucy Flores
In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert. -- Annie Jacobsen
Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East. -- Neill Blomkamp
A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business. -- Paul Laxalt
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. -- Neil Postman
We have a team in Nevada that is looking for licensed cultivators to grow Chong's Choice. Hopefully recreational passes this year and we can go full force. -- Tommy Chong
Nevada is certainly more representative of what the entire country looks like demographically, so you really are testing how these candidates are doing across ethnicities, across genders, across cultures. -- Lucy Flores
Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert. -- Glen Robinson
I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did. -- Jim Gibbons
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
Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire. -- Bill Richardson
We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation. -- Jon Porter
When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight. -- Eric Whitacre
Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham? -- Matt Shea
President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President's decision threatens Americans' lives. -- Harry Reid
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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles." -- Rachel Kushner
In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. -- Jane Brody
The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York and Ron Paul in Kentucky, is not the first time in American history that voters have responded to hard economic times by supporting angry, unorthodox Senate and gubernatorial candidates. -- Robert Dallek
The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills. -- Sharron Angle
What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.' -- P. W. Singer
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be. -- Ernest K. Gann
If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing. -- George Stroumboulopoulos

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