Mike Johanns Quotes

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

  Mike Johanns

  Growing Up, Commitment, Agriculture

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

  Mike Johanns

  Safety, Chains, Food Safety

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

  Mike Johanns

  Growing Up, Doe, Faults

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• When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

  Mike Johanns

  Borders, Beef, Cows

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

  Mike Johanns

  Goal, Sound, Protection

  "Exclusive: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

  Mike Johanns

  Animal, Becoming, Identification

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Terrorism, Producers

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

  Mike Johanns

  Country, Borders, Momentum

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

  Mike Johanns

  Japan, Korea, Goal

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Decision, Beef

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Needs, Vigilant

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Today, Process

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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, Support

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

  Mike Johanns

  Nebraska, States, Governors

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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, Meat

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

  Mike Johanns

  World

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

  Mike Johanns

  Meat, Poultry, Fit

  Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Meat, Poultry

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

  Mike Johanns

  Years, Agriculture, Sides

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• 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, Meat, Poultry

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

  Mike Johanns

  Egypt, Taiwan, Beef

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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