Sandra E. Peterson Quotes

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

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.

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

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

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

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

On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.

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

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

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

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

Farm subsidies are a matter of national food security

Food should cost more …. The farmer needs to be paid enough money for his food so that he can send his children to school and college.

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.

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

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