Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

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

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.

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

Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

The heart of a woman is the best mirror you can find.

Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated.

Giving opens the door to abundance.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.