Dan Glickman

thumb|right Daniel Robert Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He is currently the president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Quotes 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. 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 External links Category:United States Secretaries of Agriculture Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Jews from the United States Category:People from Wichita Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives