“I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, tho...” — Ann Veneman Quote

“I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.”

“We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.”

“It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.”

“I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.”

“I never said, 'no, I'm not going to do that.' Two things stand out that I really didn't care for, there was the one where they dressed me as a cow. Obviously, I didn't care for it, but I knew it was for 'hahas' for fun stuff. And then, when they put me in a diaper as the New Year's baby, I was like, 'ugh, here we go.'”

“First Cow' was pretty down and dirty, but I shot five-day weeks. I'd never done that before, just go to the location by myself on down days and just be there and think. What a fantastic gift. Usually you just move forward; you can't think about what you've done.”