I can assure you that if we are successful in January of 1961, that we are going to move ahead in this country

I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising you that if I am elected that life will be easy and the problems all solved

I want to express my thanks to all of you for turning out in this beautiful weather.

This is no time for retreat and defeat.

This contest is not merely between the Vice President and myself.

We cannot possibly afford not to make a maximum effort to get fresh water from salt water, if this State and the country is going to move ahead.

Today, in a closely knit tumultuous world, the key to the future lies in water.

If it is going to move in the direction of freedom, if it is going to move in the direction of the things which we value, then the United States has to lead.

I think we are ready to move.

I can assure you that this is a young and vital country, but what we do here in our own country affects the security of the United States around the world.

This valley is a great natural resource, not of the State of California only, but of the United States.

It shows what we must do in the future if we are going to develop the resources of the United States.

And I am not satisfied as an American to see us stand still while other countries move ahead.

I think the people should benefit.

I think it would be most useful to establish for the Office of the President himself a Council of Resource and Conservation Advisers to survey the whole scope of our natural resources so that we can, as a country, not merely as a basin…

The Soviet Union has set in this regard a warning bell for us all.

The record of the Republican Party is written on the bills that never become law, on the things we failed to do.

Our impending resource crisis is not due to scarcity.