Michigan Quotes

• While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Trump
  • Burn
  • Global

• I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Live
  • Littles
  • Detroit

• Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Up
  • Mars
  • Michigan

• Al Gore's extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Jobs
  • Cars
  • Al Gore

• I just finished doing a large Holocaust piece, a seated figure over seven feet tall. It's gigantic. It's going to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Holocaust
  • Michigan
  • Ann Arbor

• Michigan was one of my choices going to school. It's going to be a big rival for me and the whole team.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • School
  • Team
  • Choices

• As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.”

  

  Deborah Rhode
  • Sex
  • Jobs
  • Students

• We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.

  

  Woody Hayes
  • Giving
  • Football
  • Wolverines

• Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates.

  

  Mike Bouchard
  • General
  • Although
  • Official

• ...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing in a medical proposition to be carried out in the state of Michigan, and Michigan is a large place. And as I thought of the thing the more convinced I became that this oughtn't to be a personal thing, This ought to be something done by the Michigan State Medical Society as a body. Recommending the addition of a trace of iodine to table salt.

  

  David Murray Cowie
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Medical

• I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.

  

  Josh Malerman
  • Stories
  • Michigan
  • Placing

• The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Writing
  • School
  • Computer

• It's one of those tracks I feel comfortable at and have always found that I can get around there pretty good. It's always a treat to go to Michigan. We're looking forward to running well on Saturday.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Running
  • Tracks
  • Michigan

• It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Moved
  • Hoping
  • Hung out

• Michigan has always been my favorite track. It just has everything going for it. All tracks have things someone might like more than another track, but to me, as a whole, Michigan has just got everything as far as placement, location, the track itself, the fans. A little bit of everything just seems like it goes a long way there. It's always a treat to go to Michigan, and when you run good there it helps. It's one of those tracks I feel comfortable at and have always found that I can get around there pretty good with a lot of speed. I'm looking forward to doing both the Cup and Busch events this weekend. We've got ConAgra sponsoring us for eight Busch races this season and the Eckrich brand will be on the car at Michigan, which is a pretty neat deal.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Fans
  • Deal
  • Weekend

• 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

• 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
  • Voters
  • Florida