I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.

I think my big break was getting out of Richmond, California, alive.

— Salim Akil

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California,…

— Jan Brewer

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of…

— Will Ferrell

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or…

— Robert Hass

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store. I grew up learning to do more with less. And I have…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans…

— Mona Charen

Arizona just became the 15th state to approve medical marijuana. So I give it three days before they stop caring about the whole immigration…

— Jimmy Fallon

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's…

— Mark McKinnon

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

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

— Jane D. Hull

I'm an Arizona boy.

— Henry Cejudo

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…

— Joy Covey

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer…

— Jan Brewer

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…

— Edward Abbey