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This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one ... — Garrison Keillor

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. — Mahatma Gandhi

I had been very angry, angry enough to lose control; none of us are above it. — Shania Twain

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God. — George Whitefield

My own life would make a pretty dull story, I think, and I envy him as I drive to work on a cold Minnesota morning across the Mississippi River with its coal barges still struggling upstream like so many of us nowadays. — Garrison Keillor

'Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical. — Lea Thompson

Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want. — Laurie Frankel

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simplest pleasure of existence. — John Green

As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday. — Garrison Keillor

Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody. — Garrison Keillor

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota. — Garrison Keillor

Eople (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head. — Garrison Keillor

Every one of us is guilty of something! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The thought of people in this day and age sitting down to listen to a radio variety show on Saturday evening is rather implausible and was even more so in 1974 when we started "A Prairie Home Companion." Thank goodness Minnesota Public Radio was too poor to afford good advice or the show never would've got on the air. We only did it because we knew it would be fun to do. It was a dumb idea. I wish I knew how to be that dumb again. — Garrison Keillor

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. — James Joyce

Be careful, little girl. Or else the big, bad wolf might just change his mind and decide to eat you after all. — Tracy Anne Warren

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine. — Garrison Keillor

Because I'm not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn't have loved me if I was. I realize that now. — Brian K. Vaughan