Top 120 Arizona Quotes

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

One thing I remember, honestly, was how many great players Arizona State had.

In many respects, Arizona is a model for the rest of the country on best practices for water management.

A film that I love is ‘Raising Arizona’ and that’s funny but it’s quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I’d love to do something like that. Who knows?

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.

There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor’s in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about.

I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I’m from, and I would have to say, ‘I don’t have a clear answer for you.’

How about a good comedy? ‘Raising Arizona.’ Remains the funniest movie I’ve ever seen in my life.

I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration… it does them a disservice.

I came from Arizona State, where I wrestled. I have a family. I’m married.

We have a serious problem in this country, and that is securing this country and making sure that the rule of law’s upheld. And I applaud Arizona in regards to this.

Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer – it’s like 125 degrees – so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.

We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn’t reimburse us on any of these things.

My hope is that Kansas will be to stopping election fraud what Arizona is to stopping illegal immigration.

There’s a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon.

America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government’s refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists ‘comprehensive’ immigration reform.

I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, ‘What in the world do I have to complain about?’

We don’t want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I’ve been to Canada to hunt caribou.

If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.

It wouldn’t matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn’t have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that’s the way that it is. That’s what the federal law says. And that’s what the law in Arizona says.

At Harvard, I grew up a lot in terms of being able to deal with different types of people because where I grew up in Arizona, it’s predominately white and predominantly Mormon families, so there’s not a whole lot of diversity.

I think what’s going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona – and I think it’s going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.

We as governors, whether we’re Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what’s best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we’re very interested about natural resources.

We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn’t born here – I’m a product of the Midwest and the working class.

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren’t really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

There’s not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

Today, Arizona’s sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

If the federal government won’t secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.

I got to Arizona in 1980, before the Cardinals, Diamondbacks and Coyotes. The sun rose and set with the Phoenix Suns, and it wasn’t very spectacular. But I became a loyal fan and went to a lot of games.

Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, ‘Sit down, you’re done.’ Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.

The people of Arizona, they’ve been very warm and welcoming.

I am who I am, and I think that’s why I’m very grateful to be an Arizona Cardinal: because the team that picked me, they picked me.

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

As our economy advances, educational attainment is going to keep Arizona competitive.

Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also.

I’m originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but I’ve fallen in love with London.

To me, the bones of ‘Smokin’ Aces’ is in the Coen brothers. ‘Barton Fink’ and ‘Raising Arizona.’ Those two movies, if you look at them, that’s where a lot of that comes from.

Growing up in Arizona, I love fireworks, shooting off bottle rockets and M80s.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio; raised primarily in Phoenix, Arizona; and, after running away from home in my teens to play music and bouncing around a bit, settled in Oxford, Mississippi, which I consider more my home than anywhere else in the world.

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.

Arizona is a red state, and we’re going to keep it red.

When the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in Arizona as the Phoenix Cardinals, I became a fan and still am today.

It’s pretty awesome to work this hard and come from Arizona.

Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He’s set the bar extremely high, and I’ll do my best to meet that standard.

As the governor of the state of Arizona, I took an oath to uphold the laws and to protect the people of Arizona. And I’m going to be relentless in it. I’m going to do what is right.

But I have a home in Arizona now. I’ve loved coming up with this organization and being with these guys.

My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.

We spent our honeymoon at a fabulous place called the Grapevine Canyon Ranch near Tucson, Arizona, and totally fell for the City Slickers fantasy, so it would be wonderful to take the children there now that they are old enough to appreciate the thrill of cattle herding on horseback and sleeping out in the desert.

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They’re much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.