"The Republican Party has a long record on public power and I'm here to tell you it's all bad."
"It takes its place among the other giants of the American West--Boulder, Bonneville, Grand Coulee, Shasta--the giants with whose help the people of the United States are creating a rich new industrial..."
"I have been having a grand time in Montana today, telling the people some of the things that they ought to hear and know about their country, and about a certain political party that I don't belong to..."
"The power of the Government of the United States is in the people, and when you don't exercise that franchise which the Constitution guarantees you, and you get bad government, you have nobody but you..."
"Now I want to give you a little advice."
"There is one man, more than any other, who is responsible for the existence of this dam, and I'm glad he is here today."
"I want you all to go and vote for Adlai Stevenson for President, just as you did for me in 1948."
"Instead, the people of the Northwest gradually began to reap the benefits of the enormous blocks of low-cost power produced at Bonneville and Grand Coulee."
"In America, the people do through the Government those things that can only be done through the Government."
"And this has been done over the violent opposition of the Republicans and the utility companies who are partners."
"In every way that you can imagine, the Northwest is a richer and happier, more productive and more independent region than it was before these dams were built."