Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The rules are there for a reason.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

I received free health care.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.