The United States has a vital stake in the strength and productivity of every region.

If Mr. Khrushchev had our food resources, he would be using them to spread the doctrine of communism. I want to use them to spread the doctrine of freedom.

I am confident that, as in the past, your deliberations will result in decisions that are in the best interest of our Nation as well as your membership.

This is an example of the Republican \bargain-basement\" approach to economic problems.

The American economy is interdependent, and a decline in one area inevitably brings a decline in another.

I have confidence in an America that can meet the economic challenge of the Soviet Union - this challenge to outdo us in economic growth in heavy industry, in agriculture, and in one particularly vital area of national strength: the…

What has been good enough in the past will not be good enough in the 1960's.

I have confidence that America is capable of operating at full capacity - that we could consume in new schools and hospitals and dams and highways the full output of our steel mills now operating at only half their capacity.

Parity income should be the yardstick of equity for the farmers.

The problems that American agriculture faces I believe is the No.1 domestic problem.

It would not take eight Grand Coulee Dams a year to bridge the gap.

Last Thursday night in Boston Mr. Nixon dismissed me as, and I will quote him, 'another Truman.'

I have confidence in an America where the farmer does not have to be a second-class citizen - where he can obtain through Government help the same share of the national income and the same kind of bargaining power and the same return on…

I think the Democratic Party has again a rendezvous with destiny, an opportunity to be of service, not only to ourselves, not only to our own country, but to all those who look to us.

They say they have never done so much, and I say we can do more.

It does show that perhaps experience doesn't count.

The Lord has been good to us and I think we can repay his generosity by devising programs that feed our people well.

I cannot believe, faced with the difficult problems that this country now faces, that the American people are going to turn back to a Republican leadership.