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

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.

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.

One can only be constantly envious of other people's achievements through idleness, because true dreamers are too focused on their goals and dreams to be worrying about other people's business.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.

I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.