Pat Roberts

I know you are stepping down. I know you are retiring. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your common sense.

As I have said before, over the next several decades the world population is going to go somewhere between 9 to 9.3 billion people.

I have always thought our farm policy should be agnostic in terms of size.

It is a true privilege and honor to serve as Ranking Member.

We must work together because too often agriculture programs become the target of criticism and attacks.

It is a true privilege and an honor to serve as ranking member of this Committee.

It is a paradox of enormous irony it seems to me.

the basic lesson of bad loans being made in good times should be repeated time and time and time again

I think it's important that those hospitals not be jeopardized, or the care they deliver be cut off from citizens around the country, including in Kansas.

I was pleased to learn of President Obama's commitment through Executive order to require that Federal agencies ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth.

It seems to me that you might want to ask Richard Foster to join that group, to save a lot of talking back and forth.

Most of us were very pleased to hear about the President issuing an Executive order in applying the principles.

I think we abrogated our responsibility as individual members to set the Medicare reimbursement rates as best we know them, but that is a battle that we lost in the health care reform, and so we have IPAB.

Should the IPAB recommend reductions that take funds away from these rural community hospitals, I can assure you Congress will act.

We face very serious times in this country and we have all heard about the debt commission and all of the recommendations on entitlement programs.

We either hang together or we hang separately.

He ought to recuse himself, and I feel very strongly about that.

I think that is what the American people want.

Blanche Lincoln in that she always was willing to reach across the aisle, never compromising her principles but trying to get something done.

We write legislation here and work very hard to produce a farm bill or any other bill, and then all of a sudden it goes to some federal agency.

Will you please help us and be a strong advocate for sound science on these regulations, on the costs, on the benefit?

Most of these people can spell agriculture but they have never been on a farm and they just do not understand the value of some of the programs that we do have.

What are you guys doing back there? Guys is not gender related.

Do you realize how many gravel road you have out there in Kansas?

It is a terribly important and I think it is reflective of all of agriculture all across the country.