125 Quotes by Tom Vilsack

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

You know, this country today, it seems to me--it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.

We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.

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.

I don’t think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

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.

More than half of America’s rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

And sometimes people don’t realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.