Frasi di Dan Glickman

Daniel Robert Glickman è un politico statunitense, già Segretario dell'Agricoltura degli Stati Uniti sotto la presidenza Clinton.

Deputato democratico del Kansas per ben 18 anni, dal 1977 al 1995, è poi entrato a far parte del Gabinetto degli Stati Uniti d'America del Presidente Clinton come Segretario dell'Agricoltura, restando in carica dal 1995 al 2001.

Dal 2004 al 2010 ha presieduto la Motion Picture Association of America . Wikipedia

✵ 24. Novembre 1944

Dan Glickman: Frasi in inglese

“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]