Madison, Wisconsin

Collected Quotes

This is Madison. —Mayor-for-Life Paul Soglin, July 12, 2013. Actually, every third Mayor since 1973.

The Earth as seen from Madison, Wisconsin
— Caption on a postcard c. 1977

30 square miles surrounded by reality
— Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus in 1978.¹ The land area was 77 sq mi by 2010, with an additional 17 sq mi of water.^2,3

She came from Madison, Wisconsin, which should have made us stop, look and listen. 
— J. Edgar Hoover, referring to Debra Sweet in a memo to Richard M. Nixon, December 3, 1970. Sweet questioned Nixon on the Vietnam war during an award ceremony at the White House. Hoover’s memo was classified until 1999.⁴

It’s like being trapped in the movie Fargo without the funny bits.
— Shirley Manson of Garbage, describing life in Madison, October 1997.⁷ Shirley is from Earth, and the other band members are from Madison.

I’m pro-life jacket, and I boat
— Isthmus Annual Manual (2001)⁵

A drinking town with a football problem
— Isthmus Annual Manual (2002).⁶ In 2002 Barry Alvarez and the Badgers were 2-6 in the Big 10.

References
¹Isthmus Annual Manual, Madison, WI, No. 22, 2002 – 2003, pg. 31
²Mayor proposes city motto: ’77 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality’, DEAN MOSIMAN, Wisconsin State Journal, July 12, 2013
³Madison, Wisconsin Wikipedia, accessed 11/17/17
⁴“Anti-War Protesters Are At It Again,” Doug Moe, The Capital Times, Madison, WI, September 21-22, 2002, pg. 2A
⁵Isthmus Annual Manual, Madison, WI, No. 21, 2001 – 2002, pg. 35
⁶Isthmus Annual Manual, Madison, WI, No. 22, 2002 – 2003, pg. 34
⁷In the Studio, Julia Chaplin, Spin, October 1997, pg. 76