"there needs to be serious consideration for increasing staff levels at FSA."
"Legislation (H.R. 5733) was introduced in the previous Congress by Congressman Bost to raise the loan limits on guaranteed farm loans to $2.5 million to $3.5 million."
"Bost, Hon. Mike, a Representative in Congress from Illinois, opening statement."
"A republic, madam, if you can keep it."
"Only a moral and religious people can self-govern."
"We have to step into the breach."
"What are we asking God to bless and what's my role in reclaiming that moral high ground."
"As my colleagues and I examine changes to the farm bill, the current farm bill, you can hate it or you can love it. But it delivers the most abundant and safest and affordable food and fiber supply of..."
"John Adams wrote that only a moral and religious people can self-govern. And amoral and immoral people have to have a different scheme altogether, because they will not voluntarily comply with the law..."
"A republic, if you can keep it."
"We can't fix it in Congress or the state House or the local county commissioners courts or city councils."
"If we don't do that, then, at some point, the history of this nation will be written in the sins of that long, slow, miserable decline into oblivion."