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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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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My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
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I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
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The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.
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Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
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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.
