It is time for a program which views an abundance of wheat as an opportunity to provide hungry people with a decent diet - not as an unwanted stock of useless grain to be stored and forgotten.

But it is an unfortunate fact that we can prepare for peace only by preparing for war.

I look to the future of the United States with optimism.

It is essential, therefore, that we compel the complete reevaluation of our national defense organization, that we eliminate the wasteful duplication, the service rivalry, the competitive overlapping, that has consumed our money and…

Well, I would attempt to sustain the income of the sugar beet people.

A democracy is the most difficult kind of government to operate.

I would think it would be a matter of serious concern because it could well lead to a blockade by the East Germans of the entrance into West Berlin.

Formation of this committee dramatizes the willingness of farm people to work together to help us carry out our pledge to take positive action to raise farm prices and incomes.

It is time for a program which sees in America's farms the true source of American strength - not a source of difficulty.

I am proud to have the support of this group of outstanding farmers and farm leaders.

I ask your help in this election.

It is time for a program which views the farmer as a great national asset - not an unwanted burden on the taxpayer.

I agree with you, I think that is obviously the most serious kind of challenge you are going to have in the 1960's, but then it does tie in with the point I tried to make in my speech.

First, of course, we must make immediate and fruitful use of surpluses we now have - through an expanded food-for-peace program to halt famine and malnutrition abroad - and through an increased food surplus distribution program for the…

This is a great country, but I think it can be greater.

This is a great country, but I believe it can be a greater country.

In the first place, the United States is going to have twice as many people by the year 2,000 as it does today.

I don't criticize present actions merely because I enjoy criticizing.

I supported an effort and Scoop Jackson and Senator Magnuson both voted the same way, which was to tie medical care for the aged to social security.

I have called this challenge the New Frontier.

It must reduce the total cost of the price-support and storage programs.

The world is changing, too.

But I do think it is a real problem, because we are concerned about the effect it has on employment.

It must protect growers of other crops from destructive competition through diversion of former wheat acreage.

That requires only one kind of defense policy - a policy summed up in one word - first.