“Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.” YearsStatesGovernmentAmericaTaxesRedParadiseOasisCaliforniansSmall Government Author:Allen West
“Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.” LongStatesUnitedUnited StatesIgnoranceRedTraditionBloodlust Author:Jane Smiley
“The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.” StatesCharacterUsePoliticalOrderTurnsOpportunityRedCrisisRainbowLouisianaOpportunity To Change Author:Jesse Jackson
“Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.” ThinkingStatesGovernmentChurchForgetReadyPagesRedConcernHandleTapeNot ReadyRed Tape Author:Michael Tanner
“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.” PeopleMenYearsMindMeanMatterStatesGrowsImaginationNumbersEmotionQualityBoysYouthAdventureSpringRedIdealsTwentiesLipsEaseKneesFiftyAppetiteState Of MindTemperCheeksVigorFreshnessTimidityRed LipsSupple Author:Samuel Ullman
“Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.” IfsThinkingStatesSeemsCareValuesWinningMoralMessagesSmartRedFolksMetaphorFavorsHealth CareAppealsEtcVotersDescribingAffordableMoral ValuesAffordable Health Care Author:Eric Liu
“There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.” StatesLeftRepublicanRedBlueDemocratUnified Author:Paul Provenza
“Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.” PeopleSelfStatesEnoughChurchNumbersExistenceGreaterCivilizationSurvivalRedAgreeBlueInstinctGenderRingsGood PeopleFellowshipSelf CenteredBarbariansStrengtheningRecruitVerifyPreferred Stock Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.” WantStatesAmericaPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRedBlueUnited States Of AmericaPitsBroken PromisesBreaking PromisesPromises That Are Broken Author:Barack Obama
“The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.” RealStatesJobsCan DoTruth IsRedBluePurpleReal TruthDeep Purple Author:Howard Dean