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  • New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state. -- Heather Wilson
  • New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business. -- Susana Martinez
  • New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service. -- Tom Udall
  • Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York. -- Yayoi Kusama
  • If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. -- Mark McKinnon
  • The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico. -- Heather Wilson
  • My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks. -- Steven Michael Quezada
  • My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7. -- Val Kilmer
  • I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome. -- Conor Oberst
  • The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend. -- Jerry Pournelle
  • I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. -- Campbell Scott
  • 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
  • As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion. -- Gary Johnson
  • I'm addicted to New York, and I like L.A., as I have kids there. Sometimes I think New Mexico is the one place where I could almost live there. It helps your acting; there's magic in that place. -- Mark Margolis
  • When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway. -- Terry Bradshaw
  • Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference. -- Gary Johnson
  • I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. -- Fred Saberhagen
  • In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. -- Susana Martinez
  • 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
  • I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there. -- Drew Goddard
  • All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico. -- Lew Wallace
  • New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation. -- Heather Wilson
  • Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there. -- Bill Hader
  • I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. -- Ronnie Dunn
  • I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico. -- Rudolfo Anaya
  • Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. -- Mark Twain
  • I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there? -- Roger Ebert
  • I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. -- Robert Toombs
  • I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left. -- Liza Campbell
  • It's hard to believe a kid hitting golf balls in the cow pastures of New Mexico could have accomplished what I have accomplished. -- Billy Casper
  • I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it. -- Joe Teti
  • I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me. -- Liza Campbell
  • I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment." -- William S. Burroughs
  • I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot. -- Ali MacGraw
  • We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence. -- Pete Domenici
  • I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally. -- Steve Young
  • Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know. -- Liza Campbell
  • 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
  • Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances. -- John F. Kerry
  • I've been doing a late-night talk show out here in New Mexico now, 'The After After Party.' We're going to finalize a deal to be in 50 million homes. How blessed can I be, man? -- Steven Michael Quezada
  • 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
  • If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing. -- Billy the Kid
  • I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the United States version of Kingsman. I'm like how Michael Caine was in the original. -- Jeff Bridges
  • The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose. -- Argus Hamilton
  • The good news about New Mexico is we bring a lot of movies, a lot of television series out here, so I'm hoping I continue to work out here in New Mexico along with being part of my community. -- Steven Michael Quezada
  • The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it. -- Bruce Catton
  • New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn't have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field. -- Gary Johnson
  • We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle. -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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  • The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'. -- Steven Magee
  • Is it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week, President Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he never followed John Kerry was Vietnam. -- Jay Leno
  • It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico. -- Gary Johnson
  • I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys. -- Eric Dickerson
  • Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies. -- Peter Jennings
  • Together we are building a new Mexico. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. -- Robert Toombs
  • What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf. -- Alice Cooper
  • I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it. -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life. -- Garrett Hedlund
  • I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. -- Tom Ford
  • Mexico is the new China. -- Donald Trump
  • What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race? -- Walt Whitman
  • Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety.' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy.' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin. -- Edward Abbey
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