Mike Blouin Quotations

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.

I introduced a bill to create the minimum wage in Iowa when I was a freshman legislator. I set it at a buck an hour, and they called me a socialist for trying.

We always had a standing rule on economic development that towns didn't steal from each other. If they were going to do that, they didn't get any help from the state. I think the same thing should apply here.

If we want to honestly pursue a system in which we leave no child behind, we have to reform the entire system, because we're leaving a lot of kids behind today.

If we want Iowa to thrive ? not just survive in coming years ? but really thrive, we should establish Iowa as a health care leader and take the bold and responsible steps to protect our children.

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.

People here take primaries seriously. These are the folks who make the party work.

Children who are not covered still get sick, they still seek treatment. And the cost is dramatically higher if we ignore the problem.

But when you're talking about replacing, expanding, renovating an existing facility, I think that has to stay in the community it came from.