Vermont Quotes

(when asked by Chris Matthews if what thought about Whoopi Goldberg`s remarks at a John Kerry fundraiser that resulted in her being fired as a spokesman for SlimFast) I wasn`t there. I went to the Los Angeles fundraiser. I wasn`t in the one in New York. I think when you have somebody -- you know, if you did a rock concert that was a benefit and The Who played their music or The Rolling Stones, you`d expect to get, you know, "Satisfaction" or "My Generation." When you hire Whoopi Goldberg, you`re going to get her brand of humor. And I think there is a fine line, and you have to be a little bit mindful. And I, for one, am not going to do any scatological jokes or puns about the president`s last name on your show, mostly for that reason. But I also think I expect a different code of behavior maybe from comedians who have made a career with a certain kind of comedy than I do from, oh, say, the Vice President of the United States (referring to Vice President [Dick Cheney, who told Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to "Go fuck yourself" on the floor of the Senate), who used this vulgar language, you know, to a senator and was sort of unapologetic about it. So I think the Republicans hitting her (Whoopi) too hard for that is a little bit hypocritical.

(on what he would like to ask former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean) The media tries to portray you as an angry candidate. Doesn`t that piss you off?

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.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing `Sin City`. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

I`m thrilled, ... I`ve had about a hundred people come up and ask me about ESPN, so I really feel like I`m representing (Vermont).

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

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children`s writer married to a poet.

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.

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.

Oh cripes honey, let me give it to you in a nutshell. Your boyfriend`s a big, flaming, leather-wearing, man-kissing, disco-dancing, vermont-living, christina aguilera-lovin`, mykonos-going...honey take it home.

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

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.

It`s hard for a small state, particularly here in Vermont, where we`re all family. We all know each other.