Tom Vilsack Quotes

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

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

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

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

We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

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

Consumers cannot enjoy the prices and variety we farmers produce without embracing the technologies we use.

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.

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.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

It's critically important for Europe to have a different way to think about the role of agriculture in society and the economy here.

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.

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

New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.

The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly heralded as a tremendous leap forward in our ability to supplement nature by providing high-nutrient foods.

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

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

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.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

Establishment at public expense of rural depots for the most improved agricultural machinery, to be lent out to the agricultural population at a rent covering cost and management alone.

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