11/12/2013
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"Scientific endeavors are not the kind of activity that we can put a bookmark in and come back when funding is flush."
"Sometimes you need to be careful of what you ask for, but hopefully, maybe we can find ways to improve it."
"We are going to fully support it in 2014, just like we do today."
"At a time when China and Brazil are ramping up their investment in agricultural research, we cannot afford to let ours be gutted, or worse still, be ignored."