American Heartland Quotes

Being from the heartland of America, I do not think one should have to go to Washington to seek justice.

Middle America is dying for a voice.

Reagan grows up in 1920s Dixon, Illinois, and it's the heartland of America. It's a time when Americans are particularly drawn to this small town world because it's beginning to pass.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

I'm a normal kid from Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.

Wisconsin's a special place.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

I grew up in a small town in Iowa, town of about 500 people.

I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

The 4th Congressional is a rural district where people are proud to put in an honest day's work. We believe in God and family, and that success is created by working hard every day. We don't want the government interfering in our lives or telling us what to do.

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

I come from the heart of America.