Iowa Quotes

Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter''s about butter carving in Iowa.

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.