"Well, I will tell you what first convinced me. The first thing we need is a lot of rain for a long time."
"Business managements should formulate and carry out their plans so as to contribute to steady economic growth."
"I do not believe there is any cure you can prescribe in advance for that sort of thing."
"I have received the assistance and advice of the Council of Economic Advisers."
"I would like the nations to know that America is largely one in our readiness to assume burdens and, where necessary, to assume risks to preserve the peace."
"I think everybody that went on this trip became convinced of this: in the long run, no laws are going to solve this problem completely."
"Government must use all practicable means to promote high levels of production and employment."
"In my own instructions to the Cabinet and heads of all offices, I have told them that every place that there is a chance to save a dollar out of the money that we have budgeted and may be appropriated..."
"The vast productive power of the American economy was demonstrated again in 1956 in a record national output of $412 billion of goods and services."
"Certainly, I am going to stand for it with my full might, and I think that the major figures in the Republican Party, the vast majority of them, believe the same thing."
"I am confident that the Nation's over-all prosperity will be extended into the months ahead."
"High costs of raw materials and wage increases that tended to outrun the year's small gain in productivity were pervasive factors making for higher prices."