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
The MPAA views this partnership with Internet2 as an important opportunity for collaboration as we seek to link new delivery models with content protection. The MPAA and its member companies have a wide range of expertise in both areas, and I believe we can add a positive, constructive perspective.
It's the most extreme damage I have ever seen, ... This is an event of extraordinary magnitude.
That said, we can't bury our heads in the sand. We have to do more to attract customers and keep regulars coming back. It is no secret that our industry faces new challenges but with every challenge, there is an exciting opportunity.
Everyone knows how to sum up box office in 2005. It was down. This is not breaking news. What is important in 2006 is how we respond to the changing marketplace.
There is not a budget cap on firefighting, ... When it comes to natural disasters, the government does respond, and Congress does respond, the president does respond.
The organic classification is not a judgment about the quality or safety of any product. Organic is about how it is produced. It is a process issue,
This settlement culminates a four-year investigation, ... The plea agreement not only serves as punishment to the offenders, it also offers the opportunity to repay farmers who were financially damaged by these criminal acts.
We have to keep this in historical perspective. Obviously, we want to do better. But the movie business is still pretty healthy.
We will also consult closely with other major food producers, such as the European Union, and we will be careful to avoid any steps that would disrupt international agricultural markets or reduce incentives for Russian farmers,
We've got to do a better job of segregating those commodities to make sure that ... we basically protect people from things that haven't been approved, ... The FDA is monitoring the situation very closely, very carefully. I don't think there is any public health and safety issue here, but the fact is the product has not been approved for human consumption. It should not be served.
We and others in our industry should do our best to eliminate gratuitous on-screen portrayals of smoking, particularly in movies that children see, ... I don't like to be in a position to dictate what a storyteller can or cannot say.
We have the hottest, driest weather in perhaps 50 years; we have thousands of lightning strikes an hour; we have 300 new fires every day in the West, largely because of lightning strikes,
We hope the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling and an aggressive education effort will dissuade companies and individuals from engaging in these types of unlawful activities in the future. But when necessary, we will pursue all avenues ? including legal means ? to protect our product from theft.
We screened that movie before members of Congress. Hopefully, the screening of the movie had some kind of an effect on the process.