Poor New Mexico! So far from Heaven; so close to Texas.

“We are close to Texas,” Stevie”

— Diane Patterson

Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico,…

— Howard Dean

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.…

— Steve Young

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

— Robert Toombs

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

— Porfirio Diaz

“Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos! (Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!)”

— Porfirio Diaz

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

— Deb Haaland

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…

— Bruce Catton

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?

— Roger Ebert

I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar.…

— John Hickenlooper

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…

— Alice Cooper

I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico,…

— William S. Burroughs

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

New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.

— Tom Udall

I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.

— Bart Millard