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

We either hang together or we hang separately.

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.

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

I think that is what the American people want.

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.

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.

How can the American public be sure that your agency is protecting scientific integrity through a risk-based approach rather than a precautionary stance to regulate dust, water, pesticides, chemicals?

could there not be some yardstick that we would all agree on and say, okay, from a stability standpoint instead of changing the rules every decade

I say I am an us-guys. I am not a you-guy.

The farmer would never put the seed in the ground if he or she was not an optimist.

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