Best Dakota Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Well, I love North Dakota. I love the people of North Dakota. I love the geography and the resources of North Dakota.”

“I'm a small town kid from, in North Dakota.”

“If you're going to launch a tech company in North Dakota, you need to be willing to go against the grain and reimagine what's possible.”

“Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.”

“I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.”

“I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.”

“Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.”

“What works for New York is never going to work for North Dakota and across the country.”

“North Dakota heavily depends on CDL drivers, and as a rural state, it is critical that we be able to move products and get resources to where they are needed most.”

“I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.”

“I would love to work with Marion Cotillard... and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.”

“My role as North Dakota's elected leader is to use my influence to unleash innovation. There are innovators in state government, you just have to find them and help them get freed up.”

“North Dakota is a conservative state.”

“Working together, we can identify best practices and policies for retaining and recruiting teachers and ensure they have the resources and support they need to deliver a world-class education to students across North Dakota.”

“I'm a South Dakota kid.”

“My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.”

“South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.”

“I met my wife in South Dakota.”

“My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.”

“In North Dakota, we listen with respect, and we talk things out. That's how we can get America back on track.”

“I told my mom that I wanted to be the Puerto Rican version of Dakota Fanning.”

“Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.”

“I grew up in the Midwest. I grew up in South Dakota.”

“My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.”

“I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.”

“I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.”

“Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.”

“If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.”

“The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.”

“My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.”

“It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.”

“Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.”

“I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.”

“The 'Roseanne' set was totally my home away from home. And I did pal around and roller-skate with Dakota Johnson. And now she's a megastar!”

“My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.”

“I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.”