Ken Cook Quotations

Somebody invariably asks a question that I can't answer. That pushes me to learn something else about bass fishing. Every year I'm amazed at the new techniques bass pros come up with to fool fish. We're really pushing the envelope on fishing skills.

I wouldn't say it's atypical for the time of year. This time of the year you get real strong storms and they're starting to track a little further south.

We can't make up the difference in the export market, and the taxpayers are on the hook.

The whole system is tilted to a handful of big farm operations, and everybody else comes up short,

When the government announces these chemicals are unsafe on food they're ... announcing, in effect, that the farm groups and chemical companies who have said there is no problem were wrong,

We are still in a condition of grossly overproducing for what the market can pay, at least what the market can pay that is acceptable to our corn producers,

This is one of those days that we think the EPA is working at its best. They are asking companies to err on the side of caution.

This is one of those days when we feel the EPA is at its best. They're asking industry to err on the side of caution and public safety, and invent some new ways of doing business.

You need to step out and talk to some folks who get no government money, and I don't mean agriculture, I mean people driving cabs and selling insurance.

Once members of Congress see just how much they would stand to gain by a fairer distribution, I think that will help shift the debate.

Once the storm starts east this evening and overnight, it's reasonable that we can expect between 2 to 4 inches of snow. By morning, hopefully, it will be white - but it will be moving in and out. It just isn't going to sit here long enough.

It's my career and I do it to win the money in the tournaments which obviously is the base reason for it more than anything else but I also have sponsors for which I represent.

The U.S. has to come forward with some serious proposals for reform, or we will see more trade-violation cases brought against the U.S. and the EU, and the Doha round will be a failure,

We will watch it very carefully. We're taking nothing for granted.

It's a pretty big storm system. It's really tapping the moisture from the Gulf and the sheer strength of the storm is leading to really heavy snow.