Dan Glickman citations

Daniel Robert Glickman, né le 24 novembre 1944 à Wichita , est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti démocrate, il est représentant du Kansas entre 1977 et 1995 puis secrétaire à l'Agriculture entre 1995 et 2001 dans l'administration du président Bill Clinton. Wikipedia

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Dan Glickman: Citations en anglais

“What I saw generically on the pro-biotech side was the attitude that the technology was good and that it was almost immoral to say that it wasn't good because it was going to solve the problems of the human race and feed the hungry and clothe the naked. And there was a lot of money that had been invested in this, and if you're against it, you're Luddites, you're stupid. There was rhetoric like that even here in this department. You felt like you were almost an alien, disloyal, by trying to present an open-minded view on some of the issues being raised. So I pretty much spouted the rhetoric that everybody else around here spouted; it was written into my speeches.”

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Dan Glickman

Unidentified speech as outgoing Secretary of Agriculture, c. January 2001
Quoted in [Bill, Lambrecht, http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Dan-Glickman-Outgoing.htm, Outgoing Secretary Says Agency's Top Issue Is Genetically Modified Food, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 25 January 2001, 2007-01-17]