"I grew up in a city. My parents……" — Tom Vilsack
"I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture."
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53 Quotes by Tom Vilsack
Tom Vilsack has 53 quotes on this site.
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I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that…
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There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I…
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Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their…
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When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
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We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
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A healthy workforce is essential to grow our state and compete in the global marketplace. These actions are important to…
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Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless…
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My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us -…
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The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most…
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Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa,…
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Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.
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What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
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More Agriculture Quotes
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy…
— Norman Borlaug
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There are no miracles in agricultural production.
— Norman Borlaug
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the…
— David R. Brower
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The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
— John Bruton
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity…
— Luke Bryan
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but…
— William Jennings Bryan
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
— Jim Bunning
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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