Michigan Quotes

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
Hillary Clinton

Business, Heard, Florida

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
Michelle Obama

Important, Feeling, Put

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.
Kid Rock

Trust, Time, Simple

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.
Ernie Harwell

God, Blessed, Here

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
Rick Perry

Government, Down, Same

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
Patti Smith

Children, Around, Married

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.
Fred Upton

Good, Country, Another

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.
Jennifer Granholm

Gentleness, Replicate

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.
Jennifer Granholm

Beautiful, California

But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.
Ernie Harwell

Love, Fans, Affection

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
Mario Batali

Relax, Antidote, Manhattan

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
John Engler

Financial, Teachers, Teaching

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
Jennifer Granholm

Education, Good, Future

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.
Jennifer Granholm

Continue, Ought, Case

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.
Jennifer Granholm

Future, Here, Exciting

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.
Jennifer Granholm

Kindness, Compassion, Proud

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
Jennifer Granholm

Government, Successful, Powerful

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
Ernie Harwell

Life, Love, Family

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
James Earl Jones

Time, School, Talk

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
James Earl Jones

Racism, Her, She

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.
Anna Sui

Woman, Become, Wanted

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Ciccone

Age, Home, Reason

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.
Paul Feig

Drama, Involved, Outside

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison

Best, Place, Write

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
Mike Wallace

Wanted, Radio, University

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.
Mark Zandi

History, Teacher, Thought

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.
Helmut Jahn

Bad, Down, Around

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
Michael Moore

Education, School, Happen

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Jim Harrison

Between, Question, Genuine

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Jim Harrison

Good, Different, Two

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