"There is an old saying, which is pay the farmer or pay the doctor, and I promise you paying the farmer is way cheaper."
"Let's stay on the China situation that my good cousin over there, Austin Scott, brought to the fruition."
"Absolutely."
"So the one thing that we can do is make sure, if I hear you right, to make sure that the Secretary to Agriculture, Secretary Vilsack, designates cottonseed as other oilseed?"
"the cotton industry will not sustain itself unless something substantial changes relatively quickly."
"But as an African-American, I am not sure that he has been properly advised as to how devastating this Department of Labor ruling will be on the African-American families in terms of wealth building."
"We have two trains running here. One train is financial, the Farm Credit System. And the other train is our banks."
"it is not only an agriculture issue; it is a national security issue because we need to make sure we protect our food supply in our own hands."
"your support of the 1890s, our African American students, to get more African Americans into farming and into agriculture is very critical."
"Secretary Carter, you made it very clear we are at war, Secretary Hagel said we are at war well over a year ago with them."
"That was an absolute lie from the administration. We had been in meetings the day before, and they withheld that from us."