Tom Vilsack Quotes on People (6 Quotes)

The shareholders will profit from Whirlpool's purchase, but the people who built this company ... don't get anything out of this, ... That's not right.

It was a little bit more frightening than the earthquake I was in, ... You could see the faces of people screaming at you.

The mood of the people is they want honesty, they want integrity, they want people of character and substance, ... There are many, many people in the country who are anxious to invest in Democrats and in the Democratic Party. But they are waiting to see if we have a message that resonates and connects with folks.

Vilsack says FEMA has asked Iowa for a list of the kind of permanent and temporary housing that's available for hurricane victims. Nobody wants to sleep on a cot for six months. Nobody wants to sleep in a place where there are 15,000 other people, ... To the extent that states can provide better detailed information about the housing opportunities, that may be persuasive to a lot of families.

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.

If we used that fortress mentality and created a sense of security and security zones, and wait for the insurgents to come to us and don't go after them . . . and protect the people inside that zone, allow them to feel more comfortable and more confident and allow them to get an economy going . . . then at that point Iraqis are going to be more willing to assume the front lines of that fortress.