Tom Vilsack Quotes
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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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.
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President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.
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There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down.
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Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.
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As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush (news - web sites) because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.
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I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
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For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.
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To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.
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For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.
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I have somehow, continued to miss Oktoberfest so that's probably something that is better for me to do as a former president rather than as president, I'll have more fun.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
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I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.
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And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.
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When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.
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There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.
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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.
