Political Quotes

“It is a pleasure for me to stand in support of this legislation today. There has been a lot of talk about whether we really are reforming and whether the right reforms have been made. The bottom line is that the big debate here is another playout of some of the big debates we have had over the last year. It is whether we want Government control of the agriculture industry or whether we want to start freeing up our agricultural producers so they can farm to market principles rather than for the Government. I think it is very critical to point out that we have heard a lot of talk in America for the last 4 or 5 weeks about the critical crisis we face in agriculture because Congress has not got a farm bill out. Our farm producers do not know what crops to plant. They do. Their lenders do not know whether they can lend to them and on what basis they can lend to them. It is a signal point that we have gotten to the point in this country when American agriculture producers have to wait for Congress to tell them what they can plant before they can make their planting decisions. That is what this reform battle is all about.”