Terry Branstad: “We could go on and on, but the biggest problem is being dependent on China, who is our biggest competitor in the world.”

I’m very proud that our great agricultural state recognized that not everybody in Iowa is food secure, and we need to do what we can to try to help in a lot of different ways.

No two thinking people are going to agree 100 percent of time.

Honest budgeting is critically important.

The last thing in the world we ought to do is become dependent on China for the rare earth minerals and the batteries.