More than half of America's rural counties are losing…

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

— Dan Quayle

New Mexico's rural counties must have their voices heard on the federal policies that impact their communities.

— Ben Ray Lujan

We are not, in some fundamental ways, a single country. The map of that vast red swatch of states and rural counties that voted…

— Joy Reid

USDA Rural Development is responsible for helping rural counties and small communities provide public services and foster economic growth. Often these investments help fill…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

— Tom Vilsack

Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so…

— David Maraniss

We are getting thousands and thousands of professionals, very highly-trained people, from Puerto Rico who are now living in Florida, and who have obviously…

— Marco Rubio

“Here was a county that had almost burned down. Here was that county moving on. All of these fires could have happened only in…

— Monica Hesse

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30…

— John Shimkus

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

— Berkeley Breathed

You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in…

— Tom Vilsack

I think, first and foremost, showing up, making sure that Democrats focus not just on elections, not just on presidential elections, but we begin…

— Tom Vilsack

I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time…

— Tom Vilsack

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of…

— Tom Vilsack

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year.…

— Tom Vilsack