We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.

If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.

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

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

I'm a market person, but there are certain circumstances where you've got to have government put up the guardrails or bust up entrenched interests before they become too powerful.

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.