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The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

I always felt people should live with animals.

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.