John Salazar Quotes

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.

A secure and independent agricultural peasantry is the only base on which a people rises.

Designing our own agriculture policy will mean we can put behind us the quotas and regulations that have held back U.K. output during our years in the E.U.

A country needs to be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

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

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

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.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

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

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

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.

I pledge that I will be the best Secretary of Agriculture that this country has ever had.

How the United States chose to deal with its growing reliance on foreign oil would determine its future.

We ought not to depend in the degree we have done on supplies from other countries

Great quantities of fertile land are standing idle in our State, while at the same time great numbers of men and women and children are going hungry. We intend to start today to end that condition, and to put the idle people on the idle land to produce food for themselves

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

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