Pat Roberts: “I hope that we can work together to implement many of the common-sense reforms we've been debating for so long.”

We are in a dire fix. We are trying to write a farm bill here, and it is with a backdrop of severe budget limitations.

We are dry. We are having a drought.

Your point is extremely valid. Other countries have beat us to the punch, and we have got to get busy.

His brand of unconditional cordiality is increasingly rare, and this institution sure could use a lot more of it.