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“One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Jobs #Shapes #Way
“The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Childhood #Risk #Generations
“In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Past #Years #Income
“People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Growing Up #Military #Believe
“This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Years #Agriculture #Income
“But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Opportunity #Oil #Unrest
“If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Country #People #Creative
“I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Thinking #America #Goal
“In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Years #Records #Saws
“Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Opportunity
“Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Young #Scales #Farmers
“More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#America #Political #Half
“The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Pyramids #Giving #Doe
“The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Fighting #Administration #Immigration
“There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#America #Growth #Economic
“I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Thinking #Cities #Agriculture
“I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Party #Thinking #Faces
“And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#America #People #Poverty
“If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Vegetables #People #Focus
“Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#School #Kids #Home
“If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Dance #Prayer #Rain
“Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Class #People #Long
“The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Children #Insecurity #Nutrition
“At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Work #Agriculture #America
“I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Appreciation #Expression #Years
“President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Mom #Fighting #Kansas
“Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Hands #Risk #Three
“You know, this country today, it seems to me--it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Country #Creativity #America
“Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Leader #Want #Needs
“During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.”
-- Tom Vilsack

#Community #Advantage #Should

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