Administration Quote by Jimmy Carter

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the…

— Will Rogers

Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion,…

— Daniel Seligman

“Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries.”

— Greg Baxter

“We're a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating are taking a dire toll on…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It cannot be right that in a civilised society and alongside such wealth, so many cannot afford to feed their families.

— Rachel Reeves

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

— Howard Graham Buffett

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture,…

— Debbie Stabenow

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

— Sandra Lerner

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be…

— Alice Waters

“Doesn't the Federal Farm bill help out all these poor farmers? No. It used to, but ever since its inception just after the Depression,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

— Dolores Huerta

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

— Ron Paul