North Carolina Quotes

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

Im always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the Presidents plan have not been invited to the discussion.

My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

North Carolina's industrial workers have been crushed by Bill Clinton's signing of NAFTA supported by crooked Hillary Clinton.

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

The country is in tremendous trouble.You know this in North Carolina, because you see what's happening to your jobs, they're disappearing.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.