15 Quotes by Ken Cook

Somebody invariably asks a question that I can't answer. That pushes me to learn something else about bass fishing. Every year I'm amazed at the new techniques bass pros come up with to fool fish. We're really pushing the envelope on fishing skills.

I wouldn't say it's atypical for the time of year. This time of the year you get real strong storms and they're starting to track a little further south.

We can't make up the difference in the export market, and the taxpayers are on the hook.

When the government announces these chemicals are unsafe on food they're ... announcing, in effect, that the farm groups and chemical companies who have said there is no problem were wrong,

We will watch it very carefully. We're taking nothing for granted.

We are still in a condition of grossly overproducing for what the market can pay, at least what the market can pay that is acceptable to our corn producers,

The whole system is tilted to a handful of big farm operations, and everybody else comes up short,

You need to step out and talk to some folks who get no government money, and I don't mean agriculture, I mean people driving cabs and selling insurance.

This is one of those days when we feel the EPA is at its best. They're asking industry to err on the side of caution and public safety, and invent some new ways of doing business.