Midwestern State Quotes

I have a soft spot for Iowa.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I love Minnesota. The cold is fine with me, being from New Jersey.

Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.

Oklahoma is my home. It's definitely slower paced than California.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

If you look in a dictionary, the word 'Indianan' may appear. But the first task, the litmus test as to whether or not someone really is from Indiana or has spent any kind of considerable time in Indiana, is whether or not they use the word 'Indianan,' because no one in Indiana ever uses that term. We refer to ourselves as Hoosiers.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

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

Iowa is kind of a fascinating place.

Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.