People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

You can’t be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness.

Those who hate rain hate life.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.