Iowa Quotes - Page 6

• The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?

  Donald J. Carty

  Aunt, People, Tolerance

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• I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

  Li Ang

  California, People, Environment

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• In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, Where is my food?

  Li Ang

  Running, Government, Asking

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

  Andy Ogle

  Education, Different, Needs

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• There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.

  Joe Biden

  African American, Looks, Minorities

  "WaPo Downplays Biden's Latest Racial Blooper; NYT, LAT Ignore It". Article by Mark Finkelstein, www.newsbusters.org. October 26, 2007.

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• People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Winning, Names

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.

  Todd Grisham

  Jumping, Atlanta, People

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• Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.

  William H. Gass

  Country, Illinois, Fog

  William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.193, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

  Al Sharpton

  Two, Months, Freak

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like I had big dreams, but it wasn't that I felt I couldn't have any. I always felt very capable.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Dream, Matter, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.

  Joni Ernst

  Government, Feelings, Politician

  Source: hotair.com

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• Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history.

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, Spring, Driving

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• Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'

  David Letterman

  Home, Doors, Jehovah

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• Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.

  David Letterman

  People, Listening, Cost

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• I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

  Corey Taylor

  Home, Special, Proud

  "Government and Go-Go : Conversations with Stone Sour and Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, and Chuck Brown". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Here in Iowa, as a state senator, I have worked hard to find solutions that work for our state and as a result we've reduced taxes and lowered the unemployment rate. We have done that through hard work and sticking to our Iowa values. In the final months of this campaign I'll be asking voters to send me, and those Iowa values, to Washington, D.C.

  Joni Ernst

  Hard Work, Finals, Unemployment

  Source: hotair.com

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• My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.

  Robbie Lawler

  Brother, Dad, Marine

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

  Jay Leno

  Philosophical, Loss, Yesterday

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• When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.

  Bill Bryson

  Growing Up, Dark, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.

  Robbie Lawler

  Mma, Training, Gym

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

  Robbie Lawler

  Sports, Wrestling, Thinking

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.

  Meredith Willson

  Moving, Night, People

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• I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, Cities, California

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, November 22, 2011.

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• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Opportunity, Men, Illinois

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• When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life.

  Joe Frank

  Jobs, Character, Writing

  Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.

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