Quotes About Vermont

American Precision Museum, in Windsor, Vermont

I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.

For me, the focus has to be on the individual, the worker, not on profit margins, not on stock returns, but on how do we have a wonderful community in the State of Vermont that has good jobs that keep our kids here and keeps our communities healthy.

As we work to grow the economy and our workforce, addressing the high cost of doing business in Vermont is critical.

We must grow the workforce in order to grow the economy, invest in our future and care for the most vulnerable - and that means we have to make Vermont more affordable for families and businesses. That's the bottom line.

I believe investing in technical education and workforce readiness training is an essential step towards strengthening Vermont's workforce and economy for years to come.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described socialist who caucused with the Democrats, seemed to see the world as a vast conspiracy of big corporations and the wealthy.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described socialist who caucused with the Democrats, seemed to see the world as a vast conspiracy of big corporations and the wealthy. (Corporations and the wealthy have lots of power, certainly, but in the real world most bad things happen because of ignorance, incompetence, or bad luck, not as the result of grand conspiracies.)

In Vermont, there is maple syrup in it—it doesn't matter what it is. Cake. Ice cream. Coffee. Soup. Mustard. Concrete.

Ellingham was in the mountains of Vermont. Its story was the stuff of legend, its reputation gold-plated, its illustrious graduates legion. Its story was long but can best be summarized thusly:

While it is not likely that Democrats will start winning statewide elections tomorrow in Alabama, South Carolina, Kansas, Wyoming, or Utah, they will never win if they don't plant a flag and start organizing. My own state of Vermont is a good example. Forty-five years ago, Vermont was one of the most Republican states in the country. Today, as a result of a lot of hard work by many people, it is one of the most progressive.

As is the Vermont way, our trips were pretty low-key. No entourage. No advance people. No communications director. No security. Just Phil and me flying in coach, renting cars, and showing up for meetings—trying to get a sense of the potential support that might exist.

In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves.

Before the day was out, Ben & Jerry's had announced a new flavor: Trancicle, made only with Vermont milk and maple syrup, and "bullets" of dark chocolate.

Vermont breweries are symbols of everything that's right and good about a free local economy, where neighbors make things for neighbors - and so they actually bother to give them some taste, body, and character.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

As Stevie stepped outside, the cold air slapped her in the face. The magnificent cloak of reds and golds that hung from the Vermont woodland had dropped suddenly, like a massive act of arboreal striptease. Striptease. Strip trees. Striptrees? God, she was tired.

Vermont, where they taught Reiki

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding.

Vermont is Volvos and antique shops and country inns with cutely contrived names like Quail Hollow Lodge and Fiddlehead Farm Inn. New Hampshire is guys in hunting caps and pickup trucks with license plates bearing the feisty slogan "Live Free or Die.

The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there.

I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.

Only one Republican voted against Reagan's tax cut—Vermont's Jim Jeffords