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.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.