Iowa Quotes - Page 2

• What's right for New York or California, is not necessarily right for Iowa.

  Joni Ernst

  New York, California

  Source: hotair.com

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• I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Reason, Competing

  "Is Huntsman Wrong To Skip Iowa?" by Liz Halloran, www.npr.org. June 21, 2011.

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• you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

  Gertrude Stein

  Taken, Care, Strange

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• I watched what this man [Cruz] did to Dr. Ben Carson, who I respect, in Iowa, where he said that Ben Carson is out of the race - he has left Iowa and he's out of the race. And I thought it was disgraceful.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Race, Ben Carson

  Donald Trump during a Republican presidential primary debate at The University of Houston in Houston, Texas, www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2016.

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• If I was going for the popular vote I would've won easily. But I would've been in California and New York. I wouldn't have been in Maine. I wouldn't have been in Iowa. I wouldn't have been in Nebraska and all of those states that I had to win in order to win this. I would've been in New York, I would've been in California. I never even went there.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Winning, Popular Vote

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

  Meredith Willson

  Music, Home, Men

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• In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus.

  Chuck Green

  Years, Safe, Location

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• Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

  Bill Bryson

  Talking, Albums, Allowance

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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

  John Darnielle

  Fun, Vegetarian, Nostalgic

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Secret Service agents detained an Iowa man with a gun who happened to be walking in a Des Moines park where President Bush was jogging. Were they out of their minds? White guys with guns put Bush in the White House.

  Argus Hamilton

  Gun, Men, White

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• What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

  Ed Fallon

  Mean, Gay, Trying

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• My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

  Jennie Finch

  Brother, Two, Roots

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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

  Joni Ernst

  Cutting, Yale, Important

  "GOP Senate candidate vows to cut pork, cites experience 'castrating hogs'". www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2014.

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

  Alex Karras

  Inspirational, Football, Teenager

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• I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and BFW Hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. There's some counties maybe I won, that people didn't expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Winning, People

  Source: time.com

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• I just came back from - with Trump when I endorsed him in Iowa, in Marshalltown, a little town - 27,000 - have a lot of Hispanics working there from Mexico in a private business, so they're still here. I'm not saying they're here illegally but they still come and they work, make money for their families, send the money back to Mexico or whatever, so it's a big problem.

  Joe Arpaio

  Mexico, Littles, Towns

  "Transcript: Sheriff Joe Arpaio interviewed by Jorge Ramos on Univision". Interview with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Community, Downtown, Economic

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• All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Texas, People, History

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• A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Self, Calling, Unqualified

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• And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't shown that they were prepared to vote for a black president, we wouldn't have one today.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Black, President, Important

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this race is right now for a lot Republicans. He said, "Nobody in Iowa wants [Donald]Trump for president. But everybody in Iowa wants somebody like Trump for president." That's what you need.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• Ted Cruz who`s been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump`s plan saying simply it is not his policy.

  Chris Hayes

  Would Be, Trump, Polls

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used to be Bill Clinton's name - because every time he would come back to a city, he would find out if he had a kid or not.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Cities, Names

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• I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Mean, Night

  Source: therumpus.net

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