Quotes from Mike Espy

All meat has germs. Always has and maybe always will.

I'm not for Medicare for all.

I do have a little rhythm.

As Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton, I led the effort to bring running water to every American home.

I want to be the health care senator.

While we march in the streets making our voices heard, we must also march to the ballot box. That's where the real change happens.

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

Generally, I'd say that the perception is correct that the USDA is too large. It's in many instances overboard.

We have to create a coalition of black voters and white voters all over Mississippi who believe in vision of a more modern Mississippi.

We have to do what they did in Alabama, which is a data-centric campaign that identifies black voters that haven't voted in a while and get them registered and get them out to vote.

I want to be a senator for everyone. I'm trying to get votes from everyone, regardless of race, or age, or gender, or sexual orientation, or disability - or even party. I'm going to Republicans and Democrats talking about the issues that concern them.

After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office up and down the ballot.

Roe versus Wade is the settled law of the land.

As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed poverty in an area stretching from the Mississippi Delta northward all along the Mississippi River - where Americans suffered from low wages, high unemployment, generational poverty, and low educational attainment.

It's not every day you see a bus with your own face on it.

Unlike most kids from Mississippi, I didn't grow up hunting... But I understand that freedom to own a firearm - for recreation or self-protection - is a constitutional issue. And when government tries to infringe upon a constitutional right, we must be extremely wary and cautious.

It's hard to pick yourself up and go vote for a candidate if you don't have any sense that that candidate could have an impact on your life.

I'm someone that wants to reach across the chasm to make sure that we can collaborate with one another by race and by party.

I am disappointed my grandchildren are growing up in a country still struggling to change. But it doesn't have to be this way. They don't have to live in a country infected with systemic racism.

We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that's what we have to change.

I know Kamala will be a capable, courageous leader for all Americans.

The United States has taken pride in maintaining the 'safest food supply in the world.' And we can still have it, as long as we remember that America's bottom line is measured in the health and wellbeing of all of its people.

Too many hardworking people are getting crushed by the rising cost of premiums, copays, and prescription drugs.

Even though I'm a Democrat, I'm an independent - a small 'I' - Democrat, meaning that I'm a Mississippian first.