Economy

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

An unbalanced economy does not produce a balanced budget.

The proposals that we will make will not of themselves unbalance the budget.

We have no intention of devaluing the dollar.

Mr. Nixon based his campaign on three points: First, that this country's economy was never so good; secondly, that our prestige in the world was never higher; third, that the balance of power in the world was moving in the direction of…

I want to be a President who cares, not only about the Nation's loss of gold, but about 4 million men losing their jobs and income.

We are not meeting that responsibility when our economy is slipping into its third recession in 6 years.

We are going to have to go to work again.

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…

This community depends upon industry.

We have to find 25,000 new jobs a week every week for the next ten years to provide full employment in the United States.

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

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.

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…

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.

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

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

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.