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• ‟ To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

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• ‟ I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.

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• ‟ President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

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• ‟ There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

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• ‟ What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

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• ‟ Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

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• ‟ And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

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• ‟ Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

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• ‟ More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

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