#arizona

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' ↗

— Jim Kolbe

#congress #congressman #expert #gay #happens

I tried to describe impossible things like the scent of creosote - bitter, slightly resinous, but still pleasant - the high, keening sound of the cicadas in July, the feathery barrenness of the trees, the very size of the sky, extending white-blue from horizon to horizon, barely interrupted by the low mountains covered with purple volcanic rock. The hardest thing to explain was why it was so beautiful to me - to justify a beauty that didn't depend on the sparse, spiny vegetation that often looked half dead, a beauty that had more to do with the exposed shape of the land, with the shallow bowls of valleys between the craggy hills, and the way they held on to the sun. I found myself using my hands as I tried to describe it to him. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#beauty

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

— Jan Brewer

#going #keep #red #state

And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws! ↗

— Jan Brewer

#back #enforcing #feds #going #i

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#business #expand #grow #locate #now

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#beautiful #built #mining #our #state

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. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#border #citizens #complement #constitutional #efforts

Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#been #continue #discrimination #illegal #racial

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. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#any #arizona #cannot #care #costs

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ↗

— George Will

#baseball #canyon #created #equal #game