Political Quotes

“Madam President, I would first like to thank the Senator from the great State of Michigan for her incredible leadership. I met her over a year ago and knew she was a force to be reckoned with, not only because she has red hair but because she is someone who understands that to move something forward, we need to have compromise and we need to understand that a farm bill represents the interests of the entire country, not just the interests of maybe the Great Plains States or the Southern States or even our urban areas that care desperately about nutrition. She understands that we need to forge a bill that can pass both Chambers and keep our country moving. The fact is that agriculture is a shining star in the American economy today. When we look at States such as North Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and South Dakota, all agriculture-based States, we see they did not have the deep trough of this recession because agriculture did pretty well. And why did agriculture do pretty well? Because the last farm bill that was crafted provided an appropriate balance of concern for our long-term fiscal obligations along with providing our producers with a legitimate and appropriate safety net. We have a farm bill today that is even better that we are going to be voting on. Why is it better?…”