"I just wanted, for the record, for you to indicate your awareness of this and willingness to work with me and many other Senators to make sure we are clarifying this in the final rules."
"The era of direct payments is over."
"I know this is something that both Senator Roberts and I are very concerned about achieving."
"We intend to work with you to give you that flexibility and to be able to expand on new products that are very, very important to making risk management successful."
"Thank you all very much, and we will proceed to our third panel."
"Just open up Cuba and we are fine."
"Our obligation is to move forward and make sure farmers have the certainty they need in the marketplace."
"The new farm bill must be a fiscally responsible package that meets spending reduction targets and assures taxpayers that America's farmers are making wise use of tax dollars."
"The challenge we all face is how to draft a farm program that provides a strong, consistently viable safety net that protects farmers against crippling revenue declines."
"While some take a simple view of the current agricultural economy and conclude farmers do not need a safety net, we all know that current market prices will not continue for some commodities."
"Thank you to each of you. We appreciate your leadership on an ongoing basis and look forward to working with you."
"I was extremely concerned at the time that that production would go overseas if we did not, in some way, support retooling our plan."