Words matter. These are the best Sonny Perdue Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am a conservative Republican from the South.
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.
I’ve helped create and save thousands of American jobs.
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.
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.
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.
Ethanol is here to stay, and we’re going to work for new technologies to be more efficient.
It’s become a running joke among the public, and liberals have lost all credibility when it comes to climate science because their arguments have become so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality.
The South is a great driving destination for tourism – heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.
Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.
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.
Agriculture is in my heart.
In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together.
We don’t want a busybody government – a boss – that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
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.
My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.
We want a state wise in its contemplation – just in its actions – and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
Repentance comes from the heart.
Since I was a boy – born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA – I’ve had agriculture running through my veins.
Yes, I’m your governor now. I’ll take care of you.
Food is a noble thing to trade.
We have to get out of the mindset that, ‘If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.’
I’m not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.
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.
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.
It’s not in the heart of America to see others go hungry.
I’m going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow ’em, we’re going to sell ’em.
I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans’ First Amendment freedoms.
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.
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
No, our greatness does not come from our government.
If I want to call somebody’s name out, I want to make sure they’ve done wrong.
We can love all people while loving the law and expecting the law to be fulfilled, and that’s a tricky balance.
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.
The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.
I call it people-to-people politics and that’s what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we’re going to do.
The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warming is for a rain shower.
We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.
I’m a big fruit-and-vegetable kind of guy.
While some of the critics are voicing legitimate concerns about the merits of a system of academic benchmarks, Common Core is frequently a straw man for the frustrations conservatives have with the federal government.
