I grew up in the Midwest. I grew up in South Dakota.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up…

— Jason Reitman

I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington…

— Anonymous

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to…

— Dan O'Brien

What's getting all the attention is we have South Dakota putting out this direct frontal attack. I'm actually just as concerned about what they're…

— Anonymous

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the…

— George McGovern

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist…

— George McGovern

I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would…

— Gail Collins

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie,

— George McGovern

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in…

— Dick Gephardt

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

— Diablo Cody

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

— Karyn Kusama

I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some…

— Paul Rudd

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother…

— Michael McMillian

Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

— Joseph Kosinski

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a…

— Derek Blasberg