Sonny Perdue: “It's been a very important, effective program. As far as I'm concerned we have no proposed changes. You don't try to fix…”

I have never met a real farmer, Senator that wanted to--would rather have to call on insurance rather than have a good crop at a fair price.

I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.

food literally is a national security issue

It is a very important responsibility of USDA. We have to leverage that because there is no way for USDA to have enough inspectors on the ground everywhere to certify organics.