Tom Vilsack Quotes

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

Family, Today, Past

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

Happens, Economy, Jobs

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

Focus, Situation, Healthy

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
Tom Vilsack

America, Sometimes, Poverty

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

Home, School, Parents

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

Time, Best, American

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

Food, Insecurity, Children

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
Tom Vilsack

Health, Risk, Rise

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.
Tom Vilsack

Face, Party, Democratic

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

Parents, America, Wrong

I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.
Tom Vilsack

Goal, America, Same

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
Tom Vilsack

Rain, Prayer, Dance

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.
Tom Vilsack

Best, High, Hit

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.
Tom Vilsack

Food, Local, Systems

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

Young, Start, Beginning

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
Tom Vilsack

Political, America, Losing

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.
Tom Vilsack

Food, Give, Quick

The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.
Tom Vilsack

Fight, Continue, Solution

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.
Tom Vilsack

Time, America, Growth

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
Tom Vilsack

Done, America, Sense

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
Tom Vilsack

Society, Debt, Paid

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

Give, Two, America

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, Fight, Single

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

Help, Nothing, Leaving

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

Food, Between, Here

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: December 13, 1950

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