25 Quotes by Mike Blouin

We're talking about people who have been left behind (and) ignored by the Nussle budget.

We need to get back to the basics in elementary school. Without that, the enhanced curriculum in junior and senior high school will reject more students.

We live in a competitive world with states and countries that will beat our brains in if we don't have the ability to compete.

Every student should have the educational opportunities available to them so that they can enthusiastically pursue any career opportunity they might be interested in. And then we need to create those career opportunities in Iowa so that they have the opportunity to live out their educational interests between our rivers.

The statement we're trying to make tonight transfers the difference we have in this primary.

It was a mistake to move into these. It's a mistake to move out of them until we know what the financial consequences are for the state of Iowa. We have some exposure here and folks are kind of ignoring that issue. Do we get out of them? You bet. But we get out of it with knowledge as to what our responsibilities and liabilities are.

It starts here in this building where the past collides with the future in our present struggle for where this state needs to go. It starts here and I'd like to be part of that clash as we define our future in the months and years ahead.

It's going to take five or six years, at a minimum, to fund it properly, and it's going to take another 10 years to see outcomes.

They believe I can win. They believe as governor I can work with them.