Political Quotes

“I have done my best over the 23 years I have been privileged to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia to look out for the interests of our peanut farmers. The peanut program is such a small crop in the overall agricultural picture of the United States of America, but it is crucial to the economy of Virginia. History will reflect in the marking up of these bills in committee that somehow the Virginia peanut grower did not fare as well as those in some other States. To correct this inequity, Senator Helms and I sat down with our distinguished ranking member and we showed him what had occurred, largely through oversight. I believe this oversight occurred because Virginia's peanut farms are unique when compared with other peanut States. For family farmers, oftentimes peanuts are one of their principal sources of income, if not their only agricultural source of income. They take a lot of pride as their fathers and forefathers have taken for many, many years. Nevertheless, the committee bill... somehow did not work out for Virginia.”