Bill Dedman Quotes

The agricultural interest of our country is so essentially connected with every other and so superior in importance to them all that it is scarcely necessary to invite to it your particular attention.

The Agriculture Committee was one of my top committee choices because it will give me the platform to be an even stronger leader for our hard-working farmers in South Jersey.

I'm proud to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

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

The majority of us don’t want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints. Except as straw-chewing figures in children’s books, we don’t quite believe in them anymore

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

As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee it has been important to me to intersect with Hoosier farmers as often as possible.

I am committed to helping our farmers in any way that I can.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting 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.

This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

Parity is for farmers.

We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

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.

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

The [Agricultural] Department’s budget was $51 billion last year – more than the total net income of American farmers.

Don’t confuse me with all that. Just tell me how to vote to help your farmers.