Anyone who does not realize that this is one of the great problems which is going to face us as citizens, anyone who does not realize that today we are only using 50 percent of the capacity of our steel mills, today in the last 5 or 10 years the farmers of Illinois and the farmers of the United States, their income has dropped 30 percent.

We are going to have to go to work again.

I believe as in 1932, the United States is going to decide to move into the sixties, to provide work for our people, to strengthen our country, and set an example of what freedom can do around the world.

It does not represent a drain on the Treasury of $2 billion, because it is paid for on the way.

On all the great issues which disturb our country, minimum wage, social security, unemployment compensation, houses, roads, schools, hospitals, our parties have divided and we have divided, and the great questions for the 1960's are how is it going to be possible to move this country forward, build its economy, provide employment for its people.

We will accomplish this through supply management, by bringing supply into line with demand.

We need a strong economy if we are going to meet our obligations to the underdeveloped world, to maintain our defenses, to meet our needs in education and health and housing.

It is time to raise the American tide.

When the farmer can’t buy cars, the autoworker loses his job, and steel mills go down to 50 percent of capacity, as they are today.

I say it’s time we stopped the downward spiral where it began - on the farm.

The farm depression, coupled with the general sag in the economy, is America’s No.1 economic problem in 1960.

There is an old saying that the farmer votes Republican only if he can afford it.

The industry should be released from burdensome and unnecessary Government regulation.

The Democratic Party is firmly committed to the revitalization of our railroads and their restoration to strong position in our economy.

If we are elected, every American, man or woman, who seeks to work will find it in a growing and expanding economy.

Today there are more people in the United States living in slums than on farms.

This country will begin to move again.

Lack of administration action on widespread unemployment will be a major issue in my campaign.