"now would be a bad time to remove some of the choices in our fuel supply chain"
"Every time there has been a real serious movement of infrastructure in the history of our nation, the rural communities have been left behind."
"We do not and must not make that same mistake that we made with water, no running water until a while, no plumbing."
"Where are they going to get fuel? The culture of our country here is the convenience store."
"What kind of legislation do we put in place to deal with it?"
"food, the food that we grow in America, is a national security issue."
"Let us never, ever take it for granted."
"nobody, nobody, as that song goes, does it better than the American farmer."
"I think we have been meeting with some of the best thought leaders, trying to really map what we will see occur here into the fall."
"I echo my colleagues in hoping this hearing reveals more immediate solutions to these problems."
"Anything, obviously, I believe that we can do to provide tools to American farmers that they can increase their production at this point in time..."
"Because I believe with every additional bushel above and beyond what we normally would produce is lives saved somewhere around the world at this point in time."