Patty Judge Quotes

As I've long said, the farm bill is in need of major reform. At first chance, I voted to remove direct payments. Both the House and the Senate passed bills that end direct payments, and as we move forward, I hope we can work out the rest of the issues to implement the necessary reforms.

Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.

I'm proud to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table.

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.

We don't pay truckers not to truck, we don't pay miners not to mine and we shouldn't pay farmers not to farm.

The only thing I'd like to see hi [Jimmy Carter] do when he gets to the White House is appoint a working farmer as secretary of agriculture, that's all.

The only way to keep food prices down is to keep them [farmers] down on the farm after they've seen the parity.

I pledge that I will be the best Secretary of Agriculture that this country has ever had.

The agricultural interest of the country is connected with every other, and superior in importance to them all.

The slogan that agriculture is the backbone of the nation still remains in theory and not in practice.

It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organize our farm policy and the balance of our society.

There are more agriculture bureaucrats than there are farmers in this country.

Farm subsidies are a waste of money.

Farm subsidies are a matter of national food security