Sonny Perdue Quotes

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Sonny Perdue

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 20, 1946

I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

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I've helped create and save thousands of American jobs.

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I'm a big fruit-and-vegetable kind of guy.

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If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

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I'm not very much of a 'name it and shame it' kind of guy.

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You don't try to fix things that aren't broken.

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It's not in the heart of America to see others go hungry.

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I want to say something in a tough-love kind of way about crop insurance. Let's face it: You don't buy insurance on your house hoping it will burn down. Neither do we want to buy crop insurance and hope our crop fails so we can file.

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We have to get out of the mindset that, 'If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.'

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Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future - with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA.

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We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.

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In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together.

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Repentance comes from the heart.

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I haven't run across anyone in Georgia who is not regretful and repentant of man's inhumanity when you talk about owning one another.

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I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.

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I'm going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow 'em, we're going to sell 'em.

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I think overall, from a deputy, from an undersecretary standpoint, the goal of a good leader is to get diversity across there. Geographical diversity is important. Industry diversity is important: you can't have all corn growers... Not only that, you've got gender diversity, you've got racial diversity.

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I want the USDA to look like America, and I want it to be the best, most effectively managed agency in the U.S. That starts with good people.

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