Massachusetts Quotes

Godsmack holds the record for Billboard`s longest running Top 10 single, "Whatever"—33 weeks. Godsmack borrowed $2500 from a friend to record their first CD. "Greed" was written in response to the same friend. "(`Greed`) is about this kid who was a tight friend of ours, who lent us the money to record our indie version of Godsmack and didn`t want any money back. But in return we paid him back, and then another 10 grand on top of that as a thanks! Then he tried to sue, saying he owned 10 percent of us. He put me through a year of hell negotiating with lawyers," explained Sully. Sully Erna is a practicing Witch of the Celtic Religion (WICCA) under Salem Witch Laurie Cabot. The Earth-respecting religion is integrated in many of Godsmack`s songs and Sully`s daily life. "It`s been my salvation. A lot of people are confused about witchcraft, it`s simply about worshipping the power of the earth, and that`s it! It`s a positive religion that has helped me through a lot of bad times." Godsmack recorded Awake in a "smelly-@$$ed dump warehouse in the middle of crack-ville Massachusetts." "There was a boxing gym downstairs, if we were hungry, we`d run out and get a crappy fast-food cheeseburger. We didn`t want to be surrounded in luxury, we wanted to keep the edge on," remembers Sully.

Any GOP candidate can be dissected to a point that he is railed for having liberal tendencies. Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has waffled enough around his pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-gun control views to recruit many Democratic supporters. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has flip-flopped so many times on issues of abortion, immigration and gay rights to make one wonder for what party he`s running. Texas Representative Ron Paul`s bent toward being an isolationist who wants to bring home every one of our 572,000 troops abroad makes the anti-terror, pro-military hairs on the back of my neck stand. Though Senator John McCain of Arizona is a friend and a true, decorated hero who I personally think would make an excellent vice president for Mike, he opposed the Bush tax cuts and co-authored legislation for comprehensive immigration reform that some believe jeopardizes national security and American sovereignty. And while former Tennessee Senator Fred Dalton Thompson is also a friend, his record of consistently voting against tort reform, opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton on perjury, supporting opponents of Ronald Reagan (Gerald Ford and James Baker III) in 1976 and 1980, and failing to support federal constitutional amendments that would ban abortion and gay marriage doesn`t exactly make him "the only true conservative." To be fair, even if Reagan himself were running today, he likely couldn`t dodge liberal labeling, especially for his signing of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to aliens who resided in the U.S. since before 1982.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

It`s not like Massachusetts, where they`re baptized Democrats.

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

I`m not coming in here to be adversarial. I`m coming in here to tell you what I know. I explained Massachusetts goes by New York guidelines regarding mold. They (the Building Department) seemed genuinely concerned.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

I think it`s unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what`s right for them. It`s arrogant and irresponsible.

Century considers the SBA to be a valued partner in our mission to provide significant lending capital for the small business community in Massachusetts. Our successful partnership has enabled the region to maintain a favorable climate for small business growth.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it`s a temporary revenue stream because it`s an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

In Massachusetts we tend to think about segregation and racial disparity as a southern phenomenon, alien to our abolitionist New England roots.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they`ve been more pioneers on the special education side.

We have some pioneers, some leaders around the country, in Massachusetts and Kansas to name a couple, that are doing some of the best work.

The fact is I`ve been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

After graduating from high school I went to college in Massachusetts - Williams College, a small liberal arts school which I really enjoyed.

It just hasn`t had an impact on the majority of citizens of Massachusetts other than gays and lesbians.

This direction-less situation must be seen as negative, not neutral, because it has come at a time when new business investments and job creation are much needed. During the past 27 months, Massachusetts has regained only one-fifth of the jobs lost in the previous 34 months for a net employment loss of 4.8 percent since the peak in early 2001. In terms of job creation, this has been a very weak recovery.