66 Quotes by Ann Veneman

It is critical that the world unite for children and unite against AIDS. The size of the problem is staggering, but the scale of the response has been inadequate.

Most housing has been destroyed in the hardest-hit areas, so the survival of thousands of young children is now at stake.

We know the farm that it had been on, and we will track back to see where it was originally purchased and what farm it was born on.

We are, in an abundance of caution, beginning, as of last night, a recall of that product. And we're tracing forward to see where that product went.

We know that children under 18 are about half of the population in the affected areas. And therefore we think that about half of the victims, either injured or the dead, have been children.

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.