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I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy.

— John C. Calhoun

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

— B. B. King

Cotton is my life.

— Billy Baldwin

Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

— Tadashi Yanai

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.

— Anna Sui

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

— Sharad Pawar

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

— Joseph Mitchell

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

— Ivan Glasenberg

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

— Alex Shoumatoff

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

— Howard Graham Buffett

✗Opposing Perspectives

I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore.

— K. V. Thomas