Massachusetts Quotes · Page 2

Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink.

— Ann Coulter

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

— Robert Goulet

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

— Robert Goulet

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

— Marco Rubio

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

— Sarah Vowell

I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside…

— Dana Gould

“Massachusetts (the latter’s state-sanctioned church was not disestablished until 1833).”

— Anonymous

I actually didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

— Max Casella

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

— Mitt Romney

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the…

— Marty Meehan

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I…

— Daniel Webster

Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with…

— Jonathan Richman

We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future…

— Deval Patrick

A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give…

— Mitt Romney

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about…

— Merton Miller

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his…

— Ambrose Bierce

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now…

— John F. Kennedy

There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of…

— L. Neil Smith

My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were…

— Deval Patrick

“The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is…

— Henry David Thoreau

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen…

— Thomas Jefferson

New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%)…

— Richard Florida

“Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns…

— John Taylor Gatto

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

— Bobby Knight

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

— Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

— Uwe Reinhardt

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of…

— Charlie Baker

“It was an early saying here [Massachusetts] that there were 'Roots enough to plant Hampshire County and Gunns enough to defend them.”

— Edward Pearson Pressey

“Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things”

— Sebastian Barry

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

— Paul Cellucci

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

— Gordon S. Wood

Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

— Gordon Klingenschmitt

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

— Robert Kennedy

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“In Massachusetts and Vermont, there had been plenty of mosquitoes, but in New Hampshire, they had reinforcements.”

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

From Cape Cod to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts is home to some of the country's most sought-after summer refuges.

— Colin Cowherd

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

— Barney Frank

New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

— Jeanne Shaheen

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

— Hillary Clinton