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" The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism. "
Sonny Perdue
Heritage
Destination
Driving
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" One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground. "
Sonny Perdue
Life
Perspective
Sky
" No American - Christian or otherwise - should have to choose between their careers and their faith. "
Sonny Perdue
American
Choose
Faith
" In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times. "
Sonny Perdue
True
World
Government
" It's not in the heart of America to see others go hungry. "
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Heart
See
Others
" In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together. "
Sonny Perdue
Work
Democrats
Agriculture
" Food is a noble thing to trade. "
Sonny Perdue
Noble
Thing
Food
" I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms. "
Sonny Perdue
First
First Amendment
Expect
" The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy. "
Sonny Perdue
Immigration
Rhetoric
Party
" The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms. "
Sonny Perdue
Teachers
Facts
Need
" It is simply unacceptable for people to sneak into this country illegally on Thursday, obtain a government-issued I.D. on Friday, head for the welfare office on Monday, and cast a vote on Tuesday. "
Sonny Perdue
People
Thursday
Vote
" If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong. "
Sonny Perdue
Wrong
Call
Want
" Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins. "
Sonny Perdue
Agriculture
Born
Boy
" I will absolutely be an advocate and a fighter where necessary. "
Sonny Perdue
Will
Fighter
Advocate
" With global markets ever expanding, we need to make sure that our American farmers, ranchers, foresters, and producers are well positioned to continue to lead the world. "
Sonny Perdue
World
Farmers
American
" I'm a big fruit-and-vegetable kind of guy. "
Sonny Perdue
Kind
Big
Guy
" I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp. "
Sonny Perdue
I Believe
Greatness
Nothing
" We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives. "
Sonny Perdue
Want
Actions
Government
" I want the USDA to look like America, and I want it to be the best, most effectively managed agency in the U.S. That starts with good people. "
Sonny Perdue
People
Best
America
" When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union. "
Sonny Perdue
You
More
Theatre
" Agriculture is in my heart. "
Sonny Perdue
Heart
Agriculture
" In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states. "
Sonny Perdue
Belong
Years
Everything
" Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future - with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA. "
Sonny Perdue
Natural Disasters
Past
Life
" We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can. "
Sonny Perdue
Storms
Life
Loss
" I haven't run across anyone in Georgia who is not regretful and repentant of man's inhumanity when you talk about owning one another. "
Sonny Perdue
Man
You
Who
" 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. "
Sonny Perdue
Insurance
You
Hope
" I'm not very much of a 'name it and shame it' kind of guy. "
Sonny Perdue
Much
Kind
Guy
" You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement. "
Sonny Perdue
Greatness
See
Journey
" It doesn't hurt to be a former governor. It helps in terms of getting your phone calls returned. "
Sonny Perdue
Hurt
Phone
Phone Calls
" 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. "
Sonny Perdue
Better
Hand
Generation
" No, our greatness does not come from our government. "
Sonny Perdue
Come
Greatness
Government