Mike Johanns famous quotes

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Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
-- Mike Johanns

#Growing Up #Commitment #Discipline
Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.
-- Mike Johanns

#Safety #Chains #Food Safety
We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.
-- Mike Johanns

#Egypt #Lebanon #Taiwan
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.
-- Mike Johanns

#Korea #Japan #Goal
People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.
-- Mike Johanns

#People #Poultry #Meat
Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
-- Mike Johanns

#Issues #Terrorism #Producers
The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.
-- Mike Johanns

#Animal #Becoming #Identification
The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.
-- Mike Johanns

#Poultry #Meat #Fit
The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
-- Mike Johanns

#World
There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.
-- Mike Johanns

#Country #Borders #Momentum
We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.
-- Mike Johanns

#Issues #Needs
When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.
-- Mike Johanns

#Beef #Cows #Borders
In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.
-- Mike Johanns

#Issues #Decision #Beef
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
-- Mike Johanns

#Country #Real #Animal
The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.
-- Mike Johanns

#True Friend #Government #Goal
Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.
-- Mike Johanns

#People #Today #Process
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
-- Mike Johanns

#Taken #Thoughtful #Decision
The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.
-- Mike Johanns

#Goal #Sound #Protection
Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.
-- Mike Johanns

#Quality #Poultry #Meat
I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.
-- Mike Johanns

#Nebraska #States
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.
-- Mike Johanns

#Agriculture #Years #Sides
We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
-- Mike Johanns

#Issues #Safety #Attention
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
-- Mike Johanns

#Believe #Decision #Leader
Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws.
-- Mike Johanns

#Jobs #Law #Benefits

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