"Secretary, I believe your Department can help, but it is going to take some really, really hard work."
"That is one of the reasons why we need to get rid of the embargo."
"the embargo statute basically prohibits the Department of Agriculture from using any of its market assistance programming money, so we cannot directly help promote, as we do in other countries."
"I had to give out seven American flags to family members who lost loved ones in forest fires."
"This is one area that has frustrated me more than any since I have been Secretary, because everybody--everybody--knows this is a problem."
"Candidly, I am at the point now where folks have raised concerns about trails and a variety of other facets of the Forest Service that we are not going to do what we have done in the past, which is tr..."
"This is also a budget, I might add, that is $1.8 billion less than the budget that was submitted in the first full year of this Administration."
"This is a budget, Mr. Chairman, that also will allow for an expansion of local and regional food systems in the bio-based economy."
"I would hope that we would be able to get work plans completed and we would get something over to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) relatively soon."
"We want to make sure it is a fair and equitable relationship, and that is the purpose of our review of those rules."
"I am confident, because I think we have addressed both short-term and long-term, traditional and nontraditional, challenges that agriculture is going to face."
"I am here to say unequivocally they are safe to consumers."