Political Quotes

“I appreciate the remarks of my colleague from North Dakota who understands this issue very well, representing a State that is composed largely of family farms and ranches and small businesses. It is similar to my State of South Dakota, similar to Senator Moran's State of Kansas. We share not only a lot of commonalities in terms of how we make our living but also in the kind of hard-working people who are the backbone, as my colleague said, of our country. There is a work ethic among people involved in working the land, people who are involved in agriculture, that we hope gets rewarded. One of the ways that gets rewarded is when someone works very hard all their life--and that is very true in agriculture. There are very few jobs in agriculture that are easy. It is a hard way to make a living. The men and women who are involved in production agriculture have, in my view, among the best work ethic in the country, and we want to see that hard work rewarded. One of the ways we hope that gets rewarded is when it comes time to pass that operation on, to allow that operation to be handed off to the next generation so they, too, can benefit from that hard work and build that enterprise and grow the family farm in a way that is good for our economy generally and certainly good for the economy in places such as North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kansas.…”