39 Quotes by Joni Ernst

I suppose that a lot of people thought my "Make 'em Squeal" campaign ad was just a clever way of getting public attention, and it surely did that. But I really meant it, too. So, in the early days of my term, I sat down with my staff and laid out the way I saw it. "Iowans sent me to the Senate with the mission of cutting wasteful spending- and making Washington squeal," I told them. "Let's do it.

There's a lot we can achieve if we work together.

The state knows best how to protect resources.

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.

I believe that wholeheartedly - that we have to maintain a strong national defense.

It's not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women's issues. And women's issues here in Iowa are that we have a strong economy. We have jobs that our sons and daughters can go off to someday. We have a great educational system. And women want strong national defense. We want to know that our families are going to be safe.

I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don't believe that's the role of the federal government.

Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents' lives to the tune of millions of dollars.