Sam Farr Quotations

If anybody sees the work at the Defense Language Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School, they come away just overwhelmed with pride and excitement at how good these schools are and how diverse they are, and that's what the commissioners did,

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

To ensure a sustainable sea otter population in the future, we need to allow sea otters to expand their range without forcing them to live in one spot or another,

What I would do is bring that money home and invest it in education,

You're more interested in a political message than you are in solving the problem,

This is really exciting news to a community that was hard-hit in the early '90s with the loss of Fort Ord,

If I had more influence, ... 100 percent of the housing (on Fort Ord) would be affordable.

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

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