Iowa Quotes

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Stars, Mistake

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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

  Rick Perry

  Tebow, Caucus

  "GOP Fox News Iowa debate – as it happened". Rick Perry's remarks at the Fox News Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Leonard Boswell

  Teacher, Hard Work, Home

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

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sister, Twins, Speak

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

  Ashton Kutcher

  Knows

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

  Tom Vilsack

  Caring, Long, Tradition

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• I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

  Larry King

  Caucus, Understood

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

  Tom Vilsack

  Strong, Keys, Quality

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• In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

  Steve King

  Thinking, People, Needs

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

  Ashton Kutcher

  Umpires, California

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• 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.

  Tom Vilsack

  Ideas, Issues, Vision

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

  James Van Allen

  Places To Go, Affection, Our Family

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• 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.

  John Dalton

  Writing, Years, Discipline

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• My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.

  Buffalo Bill

  World, February, States

  "Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography".

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

  George Stigler

  Teaching, College, States

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• Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Running, Country, Dog

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• The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Healthy, Want

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• If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles?

  Pat Paulsen

  Heart, Land, Body

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• Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.

  George W. Bush

  School, Humor, Political

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• Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, bypassed the debate before the Iowa caucuses because he objected to the participation of moderator Megyn Kelly as well a press release defending her.Beyond the Trump tantrum, we wondered if this had something bigger to say about the state of the media and politics and how politics is practiced today.

  Michel Martin

  Media, Tantrums, Today

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

  Thad Matta

  Basketball, College, Ohio State

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• Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

  Michael Kinsley

  Democracy, United States, Citizens

  "Kinsley: The Coddled American Voter". articles.latimes.com. January 06, 2012.

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• Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding.

  Conan O'Brien

  Riding, Ponies, Gone

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• I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

  Grant Wood

  Appreciate, France

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• I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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