Tom Vilsack
Tom Vilsack
Thomas James "Tom" Vilsackis an American politician who has served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture since 2009. A member of the Iowa Democratic Party, Vilsack served as the 40th Governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 December 1950
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Tom Vilsack quotes about
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It allows us to continue fostering the reputation of Iowa as an innovator and a renewable fuel and energy leader,
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It's not always freezing cold in the state,
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The Department of Economic Development has done a good job in explaining that we can't be everything to everybody, ... We must identify what our core competencies are.
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In order for E85 to take hold, you have to have gas stations and cars that can handle it, ... It requires Detroit to build cars, which they are beginning to do.
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It was a little bit more frightening than the earthquake I was in, ... You could see the faces of people screaming at you.
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With all due respect to my friends in my party, I think they're wrong. And I think I've got the facts to prove it,
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We have the Department of Corrections, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, our emergency management division (and) our Iowa National Guard working with local folks to try to put hundreds of thousands of sandbags in appropriate locations to try to reduce the damage and the impact. ... It's just a race against time.
focused hope security
those who are focused on security and those who are focused on hope and optimism.
across country travel twice
When you travel across the country twice in a week, it just kills you,
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We're going to do everything we possibly can to make their time here, their visit here, their home here, for as long as they want to be a part of our state, as pleasant and as good as it can be,
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This program is critical to the elderly, disabled and children of this state,
ensure markets security
When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,
obesity-epidemic childhood risk
The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
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Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.