Massachusetts Quotes

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

— Joe Miller

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

— Robert Torricelli

I love Boston, and I had a very lovely childhood in Massachusetts.

— Josh Gondelman

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

— Charlie Baker

I was in Boston, Massachusetts, when Princess Diana died.

— Linda Colley

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

— Mitt Romney

Massachusetts is a global community.

— Charlie Baker

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

— Julia Ward Howe

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.

— Mike Birbiglia

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only…

— Arlo Guthrie

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office…

— Chris Gabrieli

While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.

— David Muir

“Massachusetts has no idea what’s coming for them. I bet you’ll be the first Mae West they’ve ever had.”

— Ruta Sepetys

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Robert Goulet

In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways…

— John Hodgman

I did one of the worst shows for that kind of thing in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is one of the most liberal…

— David Cross

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give…

— John Hodgman

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built…

— George W. S. Trow

There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one…

— Rick Perry

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do…

— Uzo Aduba

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you…

— Joe Arpaio

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

— John Taylor Gatto

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

— Richard Florida

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an…

— William Monahan

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a…

— Mitt Romney

“The chief care of the legislators [in the colonies of New England] was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“It was indeed the transcendent force of modernization that accounts for the unparalleled strength of Know-Nothingism in Massachusetts. The political fallout from…

— John R. Mulkern

“We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of…

— John Adams

“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it…

— Bertrand Russell

“The autumn hit-and-run raids and the colonists’ attempts to retaliate ended with the early onset of especially heavy snowfalls that year. Over…

— Mary Beth Norton

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

— Robert Goulet

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

— Ann Coulter

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

— Niall Ferguson