Tom Vilsack Quotes

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.

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

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

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.

[Defending agricultural subsidies:] France is the world's second-biggest exporter of agriculture products, and it must remain so.

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 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

The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole 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 will always be a relentless advocate for our farmers, producers, and our way of life.

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

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

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

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.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

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.

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

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 USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agriculture industry - so it's pulled into a tug-of-war every time the dietary guidelines are re-evaluated.

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

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.

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 have always fought for farmers getting better prices.