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Quotes About Minnesota

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
~ Joel Coen
People still don't know how good Kevin Love is because he played in Minnesota... you didn't see him much on TV. His passing, his knowledge of the game - the stuff that doesn't show up in the stats - he has so much going for him.
~ Dan Gilbert
Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.
~ Amy Klobuchar
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.
~ Al Franken
Anybody who knows the voters of Minnesota knows that they can't be told what to do.
~ Tina Smith
Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
~ Al Franken
I come from a state with many sound, responsible banks.
~ Amy Klobuchar
All I can do is pay attention, listen to what people in Minnesota are saying and do everything I can to bring that voice to Washington.
~ Tina Smith
Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.
~ Betsy Hodges
I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.
~ Maria Bamford
In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.
~ Tim O'Brien
I never ever once considered that the afterlife was in Minnesota. Did you?) New
~ Judy Sheehan
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
~ Al Franken
After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.
~ Erik Paulsen
Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.
~ Allison Tolman
If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
~ Jesse Ventura
preferred the more informal service of the Methodists to the religious rigor of the Lutherans, who were as ubiquitous in Minnesota as ragweed.
~ William Kent Krueger
called Shattered Hearts: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of American Indian Women and Girls in Minnesota. In 2011 the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition in conjunction with Prostitution Research and Education published their own report, titled Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota. These
~ William Kent Krueger
Mankato was originally called Mahkato—meaning "greenish blue earth"—by its earliest inhabitants, the Dakota, although it didn't look any different to me. It became Mankato because of a spelling error that was never corrected, possibly made by the eighteenth-century Europeans searching for the Northwest Passage who settled there after getting lost on the Minnesota River.
~ David Housewright
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
~ Peter Agre
In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.
~ Jim Ramstad
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.
~ Jim Ramstad
I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy
~ Rachael Leigh Cook
Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog was - his name first was Bear, but then it changed to Big, and he sort of looked like Old Yeller. And then we also had a three-legged dog named Foxy, who we found because her leg was in a trap.
~ Justin Kirk