• "I always said that Arizona is a 114,000-square-mile pice of heaven which just fell."
- Barry Goldwater
• "Arizona is the only state in the union where mothers can't tell their sons they can grow up to be president."
- Writer Larry L. King, after both Barry Goldwater and Mo Udall failed to win the presidency.
• "Arizona: It's a dry heat."
- Unknown
• "Arizona: Where summer spends the winter and hell spends the summer."
- Unknown
• "This (Grand) canyon seems like an avenue conducting to the secret of the universe and the presence of the gods."
- Owen Wister