Ike Skelton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
-- Ike Skelton

#Land #Facts #Connections
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
-- Ike Skelton

#Cancer #Heart #Osteoporosis
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
-- Ike Skelton

#Goal #Research #Disease
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world
-- Ike Skelton

#Country #World #Regulation
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina
-- Ike Skelton

#Home #Suffering #Emergencies
In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded
-- Ike Skelton

#Years #Iraq #Three
It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty
-- Ike Skelton

#Military #Iraq #Together
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research
-- Ike Skelton

#People #Research #Medical
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
-- Ike Skelton

#Country #Fighting #Government
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
-- Ike Skelton

#Cancer #Numbers #Years
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
-- Ike Skelton

#Animal #Waste #Common
We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
-- Ike Skelton

#Iran #Korea #Years

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