Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

The greatest achievement is self awareness.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

Theater dates very quickly.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.