Political Quotes

“I particularly want to take an opportunity here to thank Congressman Jim Leach for his years of service to this country and this Congress, and to the thoughtful process that he has brought. There is a legacy left with my friend Jim Leach here as well as a legacy from Norman Borlaug, and all of us are justifiably proud to be from a State that can produce these kind of people, both Jim Leach and Norman Borlaug. I wanted to point out that the work that Norman Borlaug has done to alleviate starvation in the world has put to rest many of the Malthusian arguments that we have heard over the 40 or so years that I have paid attention in the debate and the deliberation in this country: What is the limitation on what we can do to raise food and fiber and energy now for people, not just in America, but around the world. And I have had the privilege to travel into most of the continents and meet with the people that raise the food and the fiber, and, in our case, the energy in those places. And the fingerprints of Dr. Norman Borlaug are all over this planet, all over this globe, and on the dinner table of everyone with the 6-plus billion people that now inhabit this Earth. We don't know what that limitation might be for the population, but we know it is far greater because of Dr. Norman Borlaug.”