No, of course I wouldn't do that, not if it would create hunger in our own nation.

Under none of those four circumstances would I have imposed an embargo.

I don't believe there's any farmer in the United States that would want or expect any leader to create a direct hunger in this country with a total crop failure and still ship food overseas.

Yes, that's right.

I think that in the last 3 years when the embargoes have been imposed... there was an emergency.

That's not much to ask.

But I prefer to go on from my farm to the White House and stop embargoes once and for all!

Nobody who's spent as much time on a farm as I have wants the government to manage our farms.

I haven't met a small farmer who wants to be on welfare or guaranteed a profit without work, but we should take away his chains.

Farmers are the first and foremost environmentalists.

I believe that the best government is the one closest to the people.

I want to tear those walls down.

I say it's time to take down the wall.

The family farm has preserved the values—honesty, dependability, hard work and faith—which we need to rediscover as a nation.

Our people respect the American farmer.

Congress as a body suffers in public opinion polls because there is no clear voice to defend congressional action.

I believe we need to address the needs of veterans, especially of Vietnam veterans, with sympathetic and active leadership.

I believe that Presidents Nixon and Ford both have perhaps deliberately severed the normal relationships with Congress.