Zitat des Tages über Norddakota / North Dakota:
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.
I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.
I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I knew of only one law that was discriminatory toward women, a law in North Dakota stipulating that a wife had to have her husband's permission to make wine.