Minnesotans Quotes:

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

- Al Franken

source: Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

topic: Jobs, Differences, Minnesotans

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

- Charles Kuralt

source: Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

topic: Running, Spring, Cutting, Minnesotans

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

- Louie Anderson

topic: Running, Thinking, World, Minnesotans

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

- Mark Dayton

topic: Years, Sick, Friendly, Minnesotans, Providing

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

- Jim Ramstad

topic: Compassion, People, Relief, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

- Jim Ramstad

topic: Loss, Greatness, Men, Minnesotans

In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

- Tim Pawlenty

topic: Years, Issues, Addresses, Minnesotans

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.

- Tami Hoag

source: Tami Hoag (2006). “Prior Bad Acts”, p.221, Bantam

topic: Hate, Emotional, Joy, Minnesotans

I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would affect literally every Minnesotan in some way or another, if not all Americans in some way or another....The local media sent no one out to cover my testimony....Well, then a couple weeks later, I go out to do The Young and the Restless, the TV soap opera, and everybody sends crews. We had to move them into a room in three different sections or three shifts of them because there was so much media covering that.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Couple, Moving, Mean, Minnesotans

I want to make sure all Minnesotans have the opportunity to experience prosperity.

- Kurt Zellers

topic: Opportunity, Want, Prosperity, Minnesotans

Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want to buy a painting that would constantly remind them of the bone-chilling cold, the heavy snow that had to be shoveled, and the necessity of dressing up in survival gear to do nothing more than take out the garbage?

- Joanne Fluke

source: Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.120, Kensington Books

topic: Art, Winter, Dressing Up, Minnesotans, Scenic

The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.

- Al Franken

source: Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

topic: Kids, Home, College, Minnesotans

Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

- Al Franken

topic: Jobs, Agency, Giving, Minnesotans

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

- Al Franken

topic: Nice, Fighting, Roots, Minnesotans, Vikings

Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.

- Garrison Keillor

source: Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Talking, People, Parent, Minnesotans, Daytime Tv