Political Quotes

“I rise simply to congratulate the Senator from North Dakota on a clear and persuasive presentation of what is not just a North Dakota problem, but a national problem. The United States is blessed beyond the imaginings of William Jennings Bryan by the degree to which a very small farm population provides the most ample diet the world has ever known for a global nation. I might say--and it won't come as a surprise to my friend from North Dakota, but not everybody would know--that New York State is a wheat-growing region. In 62 counties, I think we have commercial wheat grown in 50. There are parts of the western areas of the State where if you travel along the Erie Canal, at the level where it is raised above the surrounding land looking north and south, you could be in North Dakota looking at the wheat fields. Those prices affect ours, too. The Senator is right to think that the '96 legislation should be revisited in terms of the economic realities facing those farmers, upon whom we all depend, because we eat that bread and drink that beer.”