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I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

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Tom Vilsack
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 13
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Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
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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.
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During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.
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I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.
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It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?
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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.
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I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.
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If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
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When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
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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.
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What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
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To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.
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Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.
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If we are to transition to a new economy and to lead it, we must start by transforming our schools.
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There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.
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The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
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I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has not been completed. . . . I think it is fair to say there may be additional costs associated with a farming operation, but it is very difficult to quantify.
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More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
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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.
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I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time talking to folks in rural America. The president Barack Obama has been there, but other than the president and vice president, we have had not a whole lot of conversation in rural America.
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