Vermont Quotations

I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didnt get much recognition.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.

Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

We're doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

Vermont Yankee supplies one-third of the state's electrical energy, and we want that supply to remain available,

Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A.

Vermont companies should have a fair playing field.

We're still champions, even though I was not on the team that won last year. It says Vermont on my jersey, and we're trying to carry that tradition on.

The production angle of having it in Vermont is intriguing.

This win was definitely huge for team morale. After a few losses to come back and beat Vermont that was huge. We always have a little bit of vengeance against them because we tend to drop the ball when they come here or we go there.

What I am finding is that here in Vermont it is hard to get kids recruited. They just don't come up here and recruit live.

When those guys are on the floor we feel we're a varsity team in Vermont who can play with anybody.

Maine folks are just like Vermont people -- they're very independent. And that's a great place to start the turnaround,

left open the possibility that we will see a marriage statute in Vermont that will impact this kind of arrangement or this kind of relationship.

She's the real deal. We haven't seen a girl in Vermont as good as her.

My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs.

One out of every 100 family's in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

My hope is that I can help them as well as they've helped me. It's great to have some (sponsorships) under my belt beginning the season. Hopefully, I can come out, play well and represent Vermont well.

Pharmacists in the state of Vermont deserve our gratitude. They've extended their faith, good will and free medicine. But we can't continue to depend upon their good will and faith.

NCLB is a federal law. Vermont complies with the law. Beyond that, I have no desire, nor will I allow it to drive the education vision of this state.

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

I don't get too caught up in what the previous year did or all the numbers. You talk about the things you can control, and going up to Vermont and bringing your 'A' effort and 'A' energy is what we have to do. We need to make sure we go in and do some damage.

Basically my car's is pretty bad shape and I won't be able to run it at Airborne, ... But I'll be there with a car...Earlier this week, I got a call from Mike Sangermano, who owns a Late Model that runs at Waterford Speedbowl...We're going to combine the two teams for Sunday's Furniture World of Vermont Fall Foliage 150 and hope for the best.

Chris Graff is an extraordinarily well-qualified and well-respected journalist who has been serving the people of Vermont for many, many years.

If the court says this particular spending limit in Vermont is unconstitutional but there may be cases in which spending limits are warranted, that would certainly be a victory for the parties defending this law.

If the governor is trying to portray this, if you are for scholarships, you are against scholarships, you believe in Vermont and don't believe in Vermont, you believe in the future, you don't believe in the future. I believe those are just sound bites and I don't think that is really serious.

He will propose a comprehensive plan to put higher education within reach of Vermont students and families. This is a plan that will benefit more than a generation of school students.

The people of Vermont have made it very clear they want a universal health care system based on ability to pay. Neither the governor, nor now this chamber, seems to be listening.

We're probably the only team that has a chance at catching BC, but it's probably not going to happen. There are still too many points to make up ... and a whole bunch of teams have a chance at home-ice: BU, Providence, UNH, Vermont and Maine - there's five teams going for the other three spots. It's a battle.

We're opposed to any employer's policy of discrimination based on sexuality. This is based on our reading of the Vermont Constitution and the U.S. Constitution as well. We honor the military and those that serve in it. Many of our students and faculty are veterans. But one does not preclude the other,

What we've seen is a definite shift toward professionals, skilled professionals. That was a market that didn't really exist as much in Vermont five or 10 years ago.

Here's what it takes. If you love to fish, want to teach others, care about the ethical use of Vermont's water resources, and you want to volunteer with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, we want to hear from you.

I was in Vermont yesterday, and the Vermonters I talked to said I should not have been surprised that something their former governor said was at odds with the facts,

Ironically, Otter Valley was the last Vermont school to defeat a Legacy-coached team, and that was back in 1988.

Massachusetts and Vermont do not represent the majority of Californians. The people of California have spoken on this issue (with the 2000 measure). We put marriage on a pedestal because of its value to society. We will do everything we can to strengthen the family as we've always known it.

I was happy to see us turn our game around against Vermont Tech. We played some good defense and it showed that we are obviously a different team with Durr in the game. I held him out of Saturday's game until the end because of an injury.

I think this was a very big win. Vermont is a team that we always point to as a big game. We haven't been very successful against them. They're an outstanding program, and we wanted to start another home win streak and change the tide.

Why would she ask the Vermont court to give Janet time and legal rights if in fact she's been abused?

We feel good we're in third place with such a young team. It's good for them to know that the defense they've played all year can allow you to be one of the top teams in America East, even if we don't have the scoring power Vermont has been used to having.

We'd really have liked Vermont to have joined the league next year.

We have taken swift steps to secure the information and to remove the data from the Vermont Tech server and from other sources.

While Dean counts the Vermont prescription drug program as an accomplishment, the truth is he put it on the chopping block four separate times. When the chips were down and Dean had to choose between balancing the budget and cutting prescription drugs for seniors, Governor Dean chose budget gamesmanship. That is not the type of president I would be.

Virtually every company we've called for help from outside Vermont has asked us to send crews their way. There are big problems throughout the Northeast and Quebec.

We are pleased that we can help the City of Barre, one of our largest customers, with this exciting project. In light of the challenges we face in finding new generation to satisfy Vermont's future energy needs, it is important to find new and cost-effective ways to generate electricity. We are interested in learning from the Barre study whether there are other opportunities across Vermont to harness electricity from potential micro-hydro sites.

We still had to show our respect to Vermont because they came out and played hard and they're a respectful team. They're a team that's built their history, too, so you've got to respect those guys.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

We opted to go to Canada to get married as opposed to go to Vermont to get a civil union because we believe in marriage, marriage does matter.

We can't be an island. If New Hampshire does this, and I understand the Legislature there is considering it, and Maine, Massachusetts and New York have already done this, then people will be coming to Vermont to doctor-shop.

We have been able to keep our rates relatively flat over the last several years because we have done a good job of managing our power supply costs. Our low-cost power contracts with Vermont Yankee, Hydro Quebec and Morgan Stanley have brought significant value to our customers. However, as the Morgan Stanley contract expires at the end of this year, we are forced to replace it in a significantly higher cost marketplace.

We said in the beginning of the playoffs, it's a whole new season. It's always been like that for Vermont basketball and it worked out pretty well for us today.

We love Vermont and we love the support its communities have given us. We wanted to design a tour that covered the state geographically, but more importantly, made stops in some of our favorite towns.

Finally the press that we tried to put on for 40 minutes culminated in some very tough passes for Vermont. Obviously this is a tough loss for Vermont because they had the game won.

The governor will outline a comprehensive plan to offer Vermont residents an opportunity to receive a higher education here in Vermont so that they can then work here and raise a family. It's a proposal that will affect an entire generation of school students in the state of Vermont.

The governor's vision is to make Vermont affordable for Vermonters by offering a scholarship program that is going to put a college education within reach to thousands of people who currently don't have access to it.

The governor recognizes the need to make Vermont an affordable place to live and raise a family. We do need to address day to day issues, but we've got to think about the future down the road.

I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

Through this law, Vermont becomes a pioneer for families and equality,

We missed the people, the little bookstore, things like that. So we built a home in Vermont as well.

We say we're in Vermont for another six years on account of St. Mary's.

The state would have to prove that Vermont is the most corrupt state in the country because they are trying to justify the lowest contribution limits and the only state with mandatory expenditure limits. That is just a ridiculous smear.

The Supreme Court's decision to review the Vermont and Wisconsin cases means that the issue of campaign finance reform will be on the front burner for the court in the months ahead,

Rutland is the only major population center in Vermont without an actors' guild. We decided it was time to put Rutland on the map.

Our expectation right now is we expect to bring at least several million gallons of discounted oil into Vermont and we expect to announce the details next week.

Addressing the issues of affordability is important to achieving the economic development goals that will be outlined (Thursday), establishing Vermont as a leader in key 21st century industries.

Southern Vermont is worse than northern Vermont. At least in northern Vermont we did get a little precipitation over the weekend. We didn't get a whole lot, but there was a little bit.

Any road game in the America East that you can win, no matter how you do it, is a positive. There are a lot of teams that play well at home and Vermont is one of them.

ANR has known since day one of this that Vermont has had comprehensive general liability policies in place,

This is far bigger than a fringe movement on the left. Vermont has a long tradition of speaking out on issues beyond our borders.

This is shaping up as a terrific holiday for Vermont skiers and riders. We've had a series of modest snowstorms over the past couple of weeks and good snowmaking temperatures for most of the early winter. This combines to provide skiers and riders with some of the best December terrain in recent years.

The USSSA has ruled that even if we hold a trail run, it will be accepted as a regional qualifier for the national snowshoe race to be held in Vermont this spring.

It's a fig leaf. It's covering up their unwillingness to commit to the Vermont Promise Scholarship.

It really depends what you want to get out of your indoor program. The sport has only been in Vermont for 15 years, so it's still relatively new. Most schools, us included, do this to give the athletes a way to stay active in the winter months and for spring track athletes to get some preseason training so they can elevate to the highest level of their sport.

It's unfortunate for the state of Vermont and particularly the syrup industry because you're eliminating the word Vermont on maple syrup on our product and all over the United States. Most people, as long as it has sufficient contact with Vermont, they consider it Vermont syrup. They don't care where the tree is.

The addition of Vermont has made the league even deeper, and that makes getting home ice even more important. This is a league where you want the other team coming to your place.

I wanted to step it up and go as big as possible and totally represent my brothers who have helped me throughout my career. Thank you, family. And thanks, too, for all that Vermont maple syrup. That's what does it, you know.

The two games with Vermont this weekend are huge games.

It's really been our goal all year long to try and get our team to respect each opponent whether it's a top-10 team or non-ranked one. Going into conference play, Vermont and Albany both have dreams of going to play in the tournament and a win against us would put one of them in, so we really need to focus on beating them.

I'm glad to have the opportunity to have you here, Bernie Sanders, but Peter Welch, I feel you sold us down the river in regard to Vermont Yankee. You did not take the opportunity you had to see an orderly close to Vermont Yankee at the end of 2012. We did not have to have dry cask storage. We did not have to have a deal that you were part of working out behind closed doors that does not represent well the safety, environmental and health concerns of the people of Vermont.

I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.

I'm from Vermont and we did not have a lot of interest in Vermont. But you know what, Colorado and Vermont are alike, and we are a lot colder.

I hope he (Leahy) will remember that he doesn't just represent left-wing groups; he represents the entire state of Vermont and does have a national role to play in being a leader in what should be fair and dignified hearings.

His analysis of Sen. Bartlett's proposal is accurate. The governor's vision of making a Vermont college education affordable and accessible for every family is important to the long-term economic security of Vermont. It is the single best use of this available resource.

Charlie's demonstrated leadership in government and the private sector as well as his extraordinary devotion to Vermont make this a perfect match.

Chief Justice Rehnquist has served his country in the highest court of the land for 33 years and his service is much appreciated. As a summer resident of Vermont I'm sure that his many friends in the Greensboro area will miss his yearly visits. I know that I join with all Vermonters in sending my condolences to his family.

One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.

If I had to leave Vermont in February, there's no place I'd rather be than mucking around a swamp in Arkansas searching for these birds.