Dan Glickman
Dan Glickman
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickmanis an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Kansas's 4th congressional district of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of Americafrom 2004–2010. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he focuses on public health, national security, and economic policy issues. He also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 November 1944
CountryUnited States of America
We have just got to roll up our sleeves and work on a variety of ways to help these folks through this terrible, terrible dry weather crisis,
We're spending today, depending upon which agency of government, significantly more money on fire preparedness and treatment than we were spending in 1993, ... I think the real issue is that we have a situation that has been unparalleled in the last 50 years right now, and that has to do with what I call 'the perfect storm' phenomenon of weather and fuel loads.
When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,
Working together we'll see what we can do from a financial assistance perspective. ... Drought is like an insidious cancer. It's slow, it infects and it's harder to deal with as a disaster,
We're in a period of great experimentation. The studios are pretty committed to traditional theatrical distribution, but it's been changing.
Where there is disease, it tends to spread much faster. Therefore, it creates additional risk that we might not have had 30, 40, 50 years ago.
We're not going to research how to make certain types of movies - that's not what we're talking about here.
Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.
I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
One of the trends we’re seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it’s grown and what’s in it,
The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.