Tom Vilsack Quotes (31 Quotes)

The legislature this year established tax credits for small and large wind producers, ... That's a great combination with Sen. Grassley's work and Sen. Harkin's work on the production tax credit at the federal level.

Hurricane Katrina may be a defining moment, other speakers said, and not necessarily a positive one for the Republicans. The controlling philosophy in Washington now is to dismiss community and place all the responsibility on the individual, ... Its better if we have both.

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.

QUOTE I certainly understand the steps being taken by communities, ... What you are seeing is a reaction, a justifiable reaction, on the part of Iowans to protect their children.

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

With all due respect to my friends in my party, I think they're wrong. And I think I've got the facts to prove it,

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.

We have the Department of Corrections, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, our emergency management division (and) our Iowa National Guard working with local folks to try to put hundreds of thousands of sandbags in appropriate locations to try to reduce the damage and the impact. ... It's just a race against time.

This program is critical to the elderly, disabled and children of this state,

I wasn't in the White House, so I can't answer that question.

When you travel across the country twice in a week, it just kills you,

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.

I think early in the process it might have had a hard time meeting our eligibility standards for high school athletics,

The state and this city are engaged in a global competition for economic opportunity,

It was a very tough winter for us. We didn't have the normal thaw, and as a result we're getting essentially all of this water at one time,

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

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.

In order for E85 to take hold, you have to have gas stations and cars that can handle it, ... It requires Detroit to build cars, which they are beginning to do.

I think the football coaches for Iowa and Iowa State would tell you they are some of the luckiest people in the world to have the job they have, ... Win, lose or draw, I'm sure they believe it's a great life. And that's how I feel about my job.

I'm concerned about the anxiety and stress of the families here in Newton and in the Amana area,

The priest told the children that Jesus knew it would be sufficient food if everyone shared, ... The priest suggested that Jesus removed the peoples fear of sharing. And when we do that, we all benefit.

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.

We're going to do everything we possibly can to make their time here, their visit here, their home here, for as long as they want to be a part of our state, as pleasant and as good as it can be,

those who are focused on security and those who are focused on hope and optimism.

I'm excited about this team. I really am. I mean, these guys are great guys, ... They are going to be passionate. They are going to bring this message of hope and opportunity, a stronger America -- a better and more respected America -- to the rest of this country. They're going to make us feel proud.

Your poll suggests to me . . . that we've lost a sense of community in this country, ... It is important that we have that common thread.

There may be disagreements on policy, but no one can disagree with the fact that we have extraordinarily brave, competent and dedicated individuals in the armed forces, serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Department of Economic Development has done a good job in explaining that we can't be everything to everybody, ... We must identify what our core competencies are.

This is going to provide a sense of hope to folks,

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis,

The old way isn't going to work in this country.