Iowa Quotes · Page 3

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

— Terry Branstad

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

— James Van Allen

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

— Anonymous

I would say moving to Iowa turned out to be the best thing for my basketball career.

— Kyle Korver

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

— Abigail Van Buren

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

— Jim Root

Iowa is speckled with vibrant communities like Wilton, each with its own character and its own story to tell.

— Kim Reynolds

What I will stand up for is what I think is right and for the best interests of the citizens of the…

— Patty Judge

Farmers in Iowa know that I've been out there, and manufacturers, fighting for them every single day.

— Kim Reynolds

I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa…

— Robbie Lawler

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

— John Darnielle

“I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on…

— Andrew Smith

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

— Nick Swardson

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure…

— Herbert Hoover

Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome…

— Paul Engle

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa…

— Jackie Mason

There was always this sense, even early on in the campaign, that if the senator Obama could score this upset victory in…

— Josh Earnest

In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had…

— Lissie

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written…

— Bharati Mukherjee

There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them…

— Rudy Giuliani

In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot…

— Karrine Steffans

I know that in Ames, Iowa, they fancy themselves being experts on the wind, but in Lubbock, Texas, we'll put our wind…

— Mike Leach

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both…

— Dana Stabenow

Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.

— Mara Liasson

From disaster relief to representation in Congress, the census plays an important role in protecting Iowa's future.

— Kim Reynolds

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are…

— Gertrude Stein

I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.

— Martin O'Malley

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

— Anonymous

“Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about…

— Joseph Heller

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes…

— Justin Cronin

Iowa is an amazing place. But I didn't have much race around me. I was definitely not like everyone there.

— Jason Momoa

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

— Joni Ernst

“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a…

— Andrew Smith

The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

— Andy Ogle

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

— Alex Karras

I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far…

— Vanessa Kerry

The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and…

— Jay Leno

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician…

— Albert Brooks

When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities…

— Edward Hirsch