"I look forward to continuing our work to make it possible for SNAP recipients to purchase groceries online."
"I have said in the past the most important thing we can do to improve access to nutritious food is to increase the current SNAP benefit."
"If you cut anything, it should not be peoples' food."
"I like your statement about pay the farmer or pay the doctor."
"Kids who go to school, who are hungry, don't learn. There is a cost to that."
"This whole topic of how agriculture relates to our national security is important because usually when we talk about national security, we usually only talk about the military relationship to it."
"I visited a pilot program in Colombia several years ago when Ambassador Patterson was the ambassador."
"I think we also have to be looking at food security at the domestic level as a national security issue."
"The hard reality is that obesity and hunger are often two sides of the same coin."
"I am interested, ultimately, in developing a strategy to end global hunger, not just to manage it or contain it or limit it, but to actually end it."
"I am confident that America's outstanding academic and research institutions can made a vital contribution in the years ahead."
"I support our investment in all of you, and it is important that we brag about it a little bit more."