Quotes About Tucson

#1. The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.

Frank Luntz

#2. The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

Gary McCord

#3. Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald's. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese and those who didn't care for cheese at all; and there were those who desperately wish that McDonald's would introduce onion rings to its menu.

Sherman Alexie

#4. And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Erika Slezak

#5. What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.

Max Cannon

#6. Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.

Barack Obama

#7. I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that's the case with Sarah Palin's conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting, I think she's sort of digging herself into a hole. I hope - I really hope.

Patti Davis

#8. If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

Wayne LaPierre

#9. As a son of an airman who was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, it is my honor to nominate young people to our military academies.

Ron Barber

#10. My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

Kate Walsh

#11. Participants in the massacre were later tried in Tucson and acquitted. To murder an Indian was considered no crime.

Dee Brown

#12. I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

Neko Case

#13. Queers doing cowboy dancing. Who would've thunk it? Kids who grew up in Galveston and Tucson and Modesto, performing the folk dances of their homeland finally, finally with the partner of their choice.

Armistead Maupin

#14. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Jackson Pollock

#15. My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Leeza Gibbons

#16. People outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.

David Foster Wallace

#17. I would not want to be Richard Simmons ... right now or anytime. He seems like a nice guy, but if I had to dress like that? That would absolutely suck.

Blake Shelton

#18. The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

Kit Harington

#19. You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless.

Barack Obama

#20. Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday.

Richard Bandler

#21. We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#22. Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Walter Kirn