Randy Harrison Quotes

To them, the real United States is just flyover country.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

I have lost middle America.

I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.

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

I have always known that New Hampshire is a special place, with a community of people who come together to solve our common challenges.

'Service Wali Bahu,' like most other serials, cater to women audiences and is aimed at smaller towns where people are home by sunset.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.

When 9/11 happened, the world, certainly in the United States of America, there was a unity. There was this sense of unity. And I have to say just from a personal level, it really felt good. We all felt the same way.

After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria for room service, movies and just to chill. I wanted to contribute to the great city of Manhattan.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

I'm very humbled by the fact that grassroots efforts are rising up all over the country, but particularly in my home state of Ohio. I barely have words. To know that so many people across the state, from the rural areas to the urban areas, see something in my leadership and really believe I am someone for the people means a lot to me. That's how I want people to see me and my public service.

I meet people who can't get healthcare for their families, people who are just distressed over what is happening in our country. So when somebody asks me, "How do you get up?" it really triggered in me the feeling that that's what I want us all to think about each other. How do we get up? How do we pull on our shoes, go out and deal with the problems America faces. That's what I intend to do as president.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

Harness the power of peers.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.