Richard Nixon

The farmers have been responsible for becoming the most productive agricultural producers in the world today.

So, we should try to strengthen these organizations and make them even more effective in the cause of peace.

I know there are those who raise questions about our strength, and we can never be complacent about it because new inventions are always coming along.

What we have to offer to the world is something more unique and more important than all this.

I think that one of the most exciting and challenging problems that the next President of the United States will have is to make an asset out of the ability of our farmers to be the most productive farmers that civilization has ever known.

Let us remember that the strength of America is in her ideals, in her moral and her spiritual strength.

In an emergency wheat can be eaten even in its natural state.

I say: Travel through this country, and you will realize what a great and a good land it is.

We must have firmness and nonbelligerence and we must have diplomacy in which the President does not answer insult with insult, but maintains the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States.

Which of the two candidates for the Vice Presidency and the Presidency can best provide the leadership for America and the free world in these next 4 years which will keep the peace without surrender and which will extend the freedom…

To maintain that peace we, of course, must do things which are essential to give us the instrument which will keep the peace and they are, of course, the ones that are familiar to you.

I make it clear that as far as that strength is concerned, it must come before all other considerations and it is the responsibility of the American people that we always maintain that strength we presently have.

I want to speak now of another kind of strength that is more important than all these, that will be more decisive in this great struggle than all these, and I speak of the moral and spiritual fiber of this country that makes it strong.

My knee is coming along fine.

I believe that as far as I am concerned it has been reached.

The foreign policy critics made the same charge in 1956 when President Eisenhower was running.

Whoever is President, I think, must examine any invitation to the summit with the greatest of care.

I don't believe any good purpose is served by pointing to some of the State Department officials who were doing the best they could and who at the time would have justification for saying what they did if things had turned out differently.

I do not think there was a religious issue in fact, and I would do everything I could to keep it out.

I do believe, and I won't mind going this far, that in attacking the problem we should set a time in which we intend to deal with it.

The farmer's problem is obviously a keen political issue.

A train just doesn't cover enough territory fast enough in the State of California.

This Republican record is not, in anybody's language, 'standing still.'

The speech is already prepared.

I don't believe that the issue is a minor issue.