Jim Costa: “Ma'am, I think the work product is going to be better if it is from the bottom up as opposed to the top down.”

Food is a national security issue.

I think that China is watching what we're doing in Ukraine just as Russia is trying to determine what is the resolve of the United States.

But let's be frank about it. Russia today is a syndicate, I think, that's masquerading as a nuclear--a nuclear syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin.

I think that farmers, ranchers, dairymen and -women are critical in so many different ways, but they are also stewards of the environment.