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Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. -- David Simon
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. -- Dan Quayle
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. -- Tom Vilsack
There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades. -- Tom Vilsack
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. -- Tom Vilsack
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work. -- Bennie Thompson
Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, slow global warming and strengthen our energy security. -- Tom Udall
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. -- Tom Vilsack
Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal. -- Bennie Thompson
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show. -- Penn Jillette
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access. -- Blanche Lincoln
To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America. -- Tom Vilsack
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. -- Debbie Stabenow
I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. -- Tom Vilsack
We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables. -- John Salazar
I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe we shouldn't even be paving roads in rural America, because there are fewer people that drive on them. -- Glenn Thompson
Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy. -- Tom Vilsack
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. -- Tom Vilsack
Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need. -- Jim Clyburn
Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. -- Tom Vilsack
People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. -- Tom Vilsack
More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. -- Tom Vilsack
The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture. -- Collin Peterson
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. -- Dwight Yoakam
I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America. -- Bernie Sanders
There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it. -- Collin Peterson
Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas. -- William J. Clinton

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