The loan guarantees authorized by this bill will be available to communities only when they are unable to obtain sufficient credit on reasonable terms without a guarantee.

Vermont could set a precedent for the nation by creating a state bank.

America is the world's champion producer of food.

But everybody is going to have to do some sacrificing in order to handle the energy crisis.

All I own in the world is real estate.

Help us in the battle against Government spending.

We are heading toward the most acute shortages of energy since World War II.

I am also requesting that the Congress authorize an additional $50 million for the Special Funds of the Asian Development Bank.

I again urge the Congress, in considering my request for authority to grant normal tariff treatment to these countries, to work with me in framing an authority which preserves these gains.

Trade by itself does not lead to peace.

Our country has been greatly blessed in natural resources, through a combination of temperate weather and fertile land.

The employer who hires the handicapped is not only helping them; he is also helping himself and his country.

But balancing the Federal budget is no pipe dream; it is a realistic goal.

For the first time in 16 years, unemployment in peacetime is below 5 percent.

Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has announced that farm exports will reach our $10 billion goal during this fiscal year--a goal once scoffed at by our opponents.

The political voices of gloom who were so quick to give up, the political prophets of doom who said that American society was falling apart, and the American economy along with it--these misguided pessimists have been proven wrong.

One of the reasons we have high taxes is because we have such an imbalanced tax distribution system.

Our opponents' plan would eliminate that industry entirely.