Political Quotes

“I met Bill and Mary Cross and Richard and Judy Beuth in Northern Illinois. They are the 2 percent. They get up early, they work all day, just to put food on the table of Americans. They are only 2 percent; and, therefore, if we follow the minority, they are insignificant and they do not count. But they are America's farmers. When Richard Beuth's mom died in 1995, and then dad died in 1998, for the privilege of being able to farm this Centennial Farm, which has been in the family for over 100 years, he had to mortgage the farm for $185,000. They are not rich. These are American farmers, and I represented many of them as an attorney, and I was at the auction sale when the gavel fell that cut a family farm in half just to pay the death taxes. They are not rich. They put the food on the table of America. Mr. President, look at them in the eyes, the ones who get up real early and work 20 hours a day, crying out for help. America's farmers are being called 'rich' and 'insignificant.' This is the bill to help them out, Mr. President; and you vetoed it, and you looked at them right in the eye and you said 'you don't count.' Well, they do count. The Crosses, the Beuths, the Wilmarths, the Eberts, the Kappenmans, the little people across the world that put the food on the table. They are America's farmers. It is because of them and for them that we should override this veto.”