John Kramer Quotations

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

If they (the pledgers) all live up to their promises, we'll have more than enough money to cover the remaining bills. But the event happened in July and here it is September. This is not good.

But we'd hope to get going earlier; we needed this six months in advance. If that had happened, the pledges would be in hand and we would not be embarrassing ourselves to the Heritage Inn and others.

Hopefully the lawsuit gets cleared up and we can progress.

I think you'll see a lot of action in some of those states by this fall or next winter, ... But, in a couple of those states, this fall's governors races are going to be important on the issue.

I think that's one of the prime pieces of property for development in Great Falls.

We agreed to be a pass-through organization, which we've done before for other events.

We're hoping to help our community non-profits in many new ways. We're touching a lot of lives.

We sold them until they were gone (this year). We had tell people waiting in line that we would make more next year.

Be proud. Don't put yourself down, because others will follow your lead. I think that the biggest reason America is losing a lot of small swine producers is because most would rather be in some other agriculture-related field making more money. I also think that most large operation hog producers are proud of what they do.

The top eight states on our list are Minnesota, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Indiana, Virginia, Alabama, and Utah.

Anytime a U.S. senator asks for our help, we will respond. Look what they did for us on BRAC,

Your goals will change. Forty years ago, I wanted to go into beef production. Twenty years ago I started my own hog business that has grown into an agri-business today. My goals today are to create something that our grandchildren will remember us for. I believe we have a tool for our family to use to succeed within agriculture -- if they choose.

They have been pretty straightforward with us for three or four years, saying they intended to sell.

There's a lot of potential for the future. When people get together in a community, miracles can happen.

It's fabulous news. It's something they've been working on for 2 1/2 years. They are to be congratulated for getting it done.

It will give us a chance to meet these people, exchange e-mails and phone numbers and get some one-on-one time,

I hear the quality of the people they are finding is even better than what they expected, ... There has not been any downside to them coming here.