Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

If we had had more irrigation, more reservoirs, in the past, fewer cattle and sheep would have been threatened with starvation on the range ...

I have been trying to keep in personal touch with the Nation.

We want to make every drop, every gallon of water that runs down the river serve some useful purpose to mankind on its way to the sea.

We knew that the only practical way to turn the corner was to start the whole country turning the corner at the same time.