When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union.

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

I think overall, from a deputy, from an undersecretary standpoint, the goal of a good leader is to get diversity across there. Geographical diversity is important. Industry diversity is important: you can't have all corn growers... Not only that, you've got gender diversity, you've got racial diversity.

I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.