Suzan DelBene Quotes

There are more agriculture bureaucrats than there are farmers in this country.

The agricultural interest of the country is connected with every other, and superior in importance to them all.

The slogan that agriculture is the backbone of the nation still remains in theory and not in practice.

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

We don't pay truckers not to truck, we don't pay miners not to mine and we shouldn't pay farmers not to farm.

The most serious domestic matter facing the United States today is the decline in agricultural income

Farm subsidies are a matter of national food security

Keeping our agricultural sector strong and secure should be a bipartisan concern.

With global markets ever expanding, we need to make sure that our American farmers, ranchers, foresters, and producers are well positioned to continue to lead the world.

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.

My obsession is to provide food and jobs to people in Tarlac. The province is primarily an agricultural province; food security tops the priority.

Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

The only thing I'd like to see hi [Jimmy Carter] do when he gets to the White House is appoint a working farmer as secretary of agriculture, that's all.

The only way to keep food prices down is to keep them [farmers] down on the farm after they've seen the parity.