Boy was I dumb at first,

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

We had no feeling of being overseen by the authorities. No government personnel came to observe our teaching. The dean and professors at the university were all very supportive.

We're USDA. We're looking at it from an agricultural perspective -- we do agricultural products here. We do food, ... We don't do cosmetics here. We're not lipstick. We're not mouthwash. We're not lawn care products. It takes a while to sit down and look at this and say, all right, how do we make this work?

We're USDA. We're looking at it from an agricultural perspective. We do agricultural products here. We do food, ... We don't do cosmetics here. We're not lipstick. We're not mouthwash. We're not lawn-care products. It takes awhile to sit down and look at this and say, all right, how do we make this work?

What difference does it make if you brush your teeth with it or eat it?