No lesser objective is commensurate with the productive capacity and resources of the country or with the dignity which a true democracy accords the individual citizen.

It is vital that a sound permanent organization of housing activities be established at the earliest possible date in order to insure that housing functions will not be scattered among numerous agencies, with consequent confusion and…

The essential and important difference between the organization established by the Plan and the pre-war arrangement, to which housing agencies and functions would otherwise automatically revert on the termination of Title I of the First…

If production abroad had reached similar heights, no materials controls at all would be needed today.

Priority assistance is needed in cases certified by the Secretary of State to be of high public importance and essential to the successful carrying out of the foreign policy of the United States.

Our own food production has reached great heights, and our own food supplies are excellent.

I hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the provisions of the act.

Great damage can be done by inability to obtain an occasional machine, or machine parts needed to complete a program or project.

It is still essential to maintain certain limited materials controls, in order to prevent harm to our own economy and give concrete support to our foreign policy.

Healthy citizens constitute our greatest national resource.

The heart of that program is national health insurance.

A national health insurance program is a logical extension of the present social-security system which is so firmly entrenched in our American democracy.

National health insurance is the most effective single way to meet the Nation's health needs.

Our public health services--federal, state and local--provide our greatest and most successful defense against preventable diseases.

Every American should have the right to adequate medical care and to adequate protection from the economic threat of sickness.

This goal can be reached only through a national medical insurance program, under which all people who are covered by an insurance fund are entitled to necessary medical, hospital and related services.

The unequal distribution of doctors and hospitals will plague this nation until means are found to finance modern medical care for all of our people.

I believe that the existing farm price situation presents a serious problem which should be given careful consideration by institutional lenders and others concerned.