125 Quotes by Tom Vilsack

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities.

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.

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

When you travel across the country twice in a week, it just kills you,

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,