Marcia Fudge

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.

This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

You make budget cuts based on what you want to accomplish. You have to decide what is our priority going forward as a country. You cannot do it on the backs of any one group of people... There has to be some balance.

Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.

I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.

If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.

Ethnic sensitivity both on-camera and behind it demonstrates a corporate understanding of the benefits of diversity and a genuine respect for the audiences' needs.

I think that there is not any group of people in this country who do not believe that they should be a part of the process.

Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their back, picking lettuce and fruit, can do it. We don't want those jobs. Let's be real about that.

All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.

You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.