Sonny Perdue: “I will be the leading advocate for rural America and agricultural producers.”

Do right and feed everyone.

I will absolutely be a tenacious advocate and fighter where necessary to do that.

Eliminating key rural development programs as proposed in the budget would inhibit the smallest rural communities from upgrading aging infrastructure and growing small businesses.

We think the purpose is to help people move to independency . . . . We should help people when they are down but that should not be interminably.