#p

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system. ↗

— Ron Kind

#ecological #economic #finally #health #healthy

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River. ↗

— Ron Kind

#attention #bipartisan #both #caucus #congress

I don't have an iPod. ↗

— Mary Timony

#ipod

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before. ↗

— Ron Kind

#before #few #field #integrated #last

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#politics #tradition #values #western-civilization #food

Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#food-security #responsibility #food

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed. ↗

— Ron Kind

#does #economics #everyone #game #involved

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#conviction #democracy #extraordinary #ordinary #ordinary people

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#discipline #friendship #him #intimate #jesus

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#depends #golden #golden rule #keep #must