Dan Glickman
Dan Glickman
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickmanis an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Kansas's 4th congressional district of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of Americafrom 2004–2010. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he focuses on public health, national security, and economic policy issues. He also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 November 1944
CountryUnited States of America
We have to keep this in historical perspective. Obviously, we want to do better. But the movie business is still pretty healthy.
We want to make as many movies commercially available online as possible,
We are glad that Bram Cohen and his company are working with us to limit access to infringing files on the BitTorrent.com website.
We're spending today, depending upon which agency of government, significantly more money on fire preparedness and treatment than we were spending in 1993, ... I think the real issue is that we have a situation that has been unparalleled in the last 50 years right now, and that has to do with what I call 'the perfect storm' phenomenon of weather and fuel loads.
When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,
Working together we'll see what we can do from a financial assistance perspective. ... Drought is like an insidious cancer. It's slow, it infects and it's harder to deal with as a disaster,
We're in a period of great experimentation. The studios are pretty committed to traditional theatrical distribution, but it's been changing.
Where there is disease, it tends to spread much faster. Therefore, it creates additional risk that we might not have had 30, 40, 50 years ago.
We're not going to research how to make certain types of movies - that's not what we're talking about here.
Giving farmers more flexibility to pay back their loans will help many of them stay in business during this difficult period of low prices, ... USDA is committed to providing needy family farmers as much help handling loan repayments as we possibly can, in addition to making credit more accessible.
Hudson will recall all product that originated at the Columbus, Neb., plant, destroy all product they have on hand at that plant and immediately cease operations there, until they've adopted far more stringent safety standards that we have specifically laid out for them based on what we have found in our investigation,
I have intentionally left open some of the more divisive questions, ... I think it's important to have a full national and international discussion of this issue.
I believe that the politicians in Russia need to make this a much higher priority.
We screened that movie before members of Congress. Hopefully, the screening of the movie had some kind of an effect on the process.