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

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.

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.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.

With the press there is no "off the record.

To each our own Hamlet.

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.

Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that’s the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.

'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'