John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We can develop this State and the resources of the West.

If we stand still here at home, we stand still around the world.

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

This contest is not merely between the Vice President and myself.

In the 1960's we need a whole new concept of resource development, so vast, so complex, and so essential are our natural resources that they cannot be parceled out piecemeal.

I want to express my thanks to all of you for turning out in this beautiful weather.

I don't want a second-rate America.

I campaign for the office of the Presidency in a very difficult and dangerous time in the life of our country.

I can assure you that while I do not promise an easy future, I can promise you that the United States will move again.

Today, in a closely knit tumultuous world, the key to the future lies in water.

If it is going to move in the direction of freedom, if it is going to move in the direction of the things which we value, then the United States has to lead.

This valley is a great natural resource, not of the State of California only, but of the United States.

I think we are ready to move.

Our impending resource crisis is not due to scarcity.

I can assure you that this is a young and vital country, but what we do here in our own country affects the security of the United States around the world.

The Soviet Union has set in this regard a warning bell for us all.

We cannot possibly afford not to make a maximum effort to get fresh water from salt water, if this State and the country is going to move ahead.

I think it would be most useful to establish for the Office of the President himself a Council of Resource and Conservation Advisers to survey the whole scope of our natural resources so that we can, as a country, not merely as a basin…

This is no time for retreat and defeat.

I think the people should benefit.

The conference will address itself mainly to the larger problem of jobless workers wherever they may be.

The record of the Republican Party is written on the bills that never become law, on the things we failed to do.

And I am not satisfied as an American to see us stand still while other countries move ahead.

I want to make it clear that if we are successful in this election, we are going to reverse the policy of no new starts, and move ahead to make sure that those who follow in our trail have the same advantages that we have.

It shows what we must do in the future if we are going to develop the resources of the United States.