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" Repentance comes from the heart. "
Sonny Perdue
Heart
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" I want to say something in a tough-love kind of way about crop insurance. Let's face it: You don't buy insurance on your house hoping it will burn down. Neither do we want to buy crop insurance and hope our crop fails so we can file. "
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" The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it. "
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" In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states. "
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" I am a small business owner; I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things. "
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" It doesn't hurt to be a former governor. It helps in terms of getting your phone calls returned. "
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" But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation. "
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