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Quotes About Montana

It took Congress less than an hour to vote unanimously for war on Japan—except for one nay vote by the longtime Montana pacifist Jeannette Rankin, who had also voted against entering World War I.
~ Winston Groom
Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.
~ Jon Tester
I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it.
~ John Steinbeck
Martin had lived and worked in Marietta, Montana, long enough to grasp the importance of proper winter footwear. But today she needed the height and authority that came with heels. One didn't tell one's best friend and business partner—the person responsible for Krista moving halfway across
~ Debra Salonen
had lived and worked in Marietta, Montana, long enough to grasp the importance of proper winter footwear. But today she needed the height and authority that came with heels. One didn't tell one's best friend and business partner—
~ Debra Salonen
People across the nation know Montana as 'Big Sky Country' or the 'Last Best Place' thanks to our stunning landscapes, blue-ribbon trout streams, and welcoming communities. Fewer people recognize that Montana has one of the most competitive business climates to go along with our exceptional quality of life.
~ Steve Bullock
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.
~ Clive Sinclair
I'm a straight shooter: I'll stand with the people of Montana and President Trump to support Kavanaugh's nomination because there is no doubt that he will defend our Constitution and protect our Montana way of life.
~ Matt Rosendale
I think one thing that Montanans all agree on, whether you're Republican or Democrat, is they want money spent appropriately.
~ Jon Tester
If you flatten out the tax rates... and you start eliminating the different write-offs that are allowed to take place there, you make it so the special exemptions have gone away. It's better for business, and it's better for Montana.
~ Matt Rosendale
We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.
~ Brian Schweitzer
Colonel Carrington was able to construct three forts in the Powder River country: Fort C.F. Smith in Montana and Forts Reno and Phil Kearny in Wyoming. But Lakota and Cheyenne warriors raided the forts again and again, seizing supply wagons, attacking the men
~ Robert A. Carter
The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance, and in Montana and Idaho the physical distances are big but the psychic distances between people are small, and here it's reversed.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
It's a funny life," Augustus said. "All these cattle and nine-tenths of the horses is stolen, and yet we was once respected lawmen. If we get to Montana we'll have to go into politics. You'll wind up governor if the dern place ever gets to be a state. And you'll spend all your time passing laws against cattle thieves.
~ Larry McMurtry
Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana? Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look. We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit, Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him.
~ Larry McMurtry
Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one's breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won't warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.
~ Larry Watson
From the bluffs east of the city, Gladstone, Montana looks as though it could have been laid out by a shotgun blast, the commercial and residential districts a tight cluster in the center and then the buckshot dispersing in the looser pattern of outlying houses and businesses owned by those Montanans for whom space is a stronger article of faith than neighborliness.
~ Larry Watson
Mercer County, Montana.
~ Larry Watson
Mercer County is in the far northeast corner of Montana
~ Larry Watson
If you don't like wind," Grandfather replied, "you don't like Montana. Because it blows here 360 days a year. Better get used to it.
~ Larry Watson
Out in Montana you wouldn't be worth dirtying a man's hands on. Or his boots. So we'd handle him this way. Nice and clean.
~ Larry Watson
People are leaving the bar right and left—probably afraid of these wild and woolly cowboys from Montana
~ Larry Watson
Deputy sheriff." He looked down at his shirt as though he expected to see his badge there. "Which I owe to your granddad and your dad. You know what your granddad said it means to be a peace officer in Montana? He said it means knowing when to look and when to look away. Took me a while to learn that.
~ Larry Watson