#cult

At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #build #department #direction #economy

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #city #grew #i #knew

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#best #exports #high #hit #incomes

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#changing #difficult #get #sound #very

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#difficult #english #english language #feel #i

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have. ↗

— Jon Voight

#danger #daring #democracy #difficult #extraordinary

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. ↗

— Voltaire

#born #cultivate #eden #garden #man