Political Quotes

“I was stunned to learn, once again, that less than 1 percent of all the food that we import is inspected. Again, we were talking about all the other problems we face, but I was sort of taken aback by the fact that such a tiny percentage of the produce or products we as Americans consume that comes from offshore--and many do, particularly in cold-weather months, particularly we import an awful lot of food from overseas--we are not talking about stopping that, but it seems to me in the context of what the Senator is talking about, a farm bill, it is in all of our interests, whether you are from a farm State or not--putting that issue aside but with that issue in mind--we would not be doing everything we could to encourage domestic production of our food supplies.”