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We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.