Kansas Quotes

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.