Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The expense in the past to Federal, State, and local governments arising by reason of crop losses points to the desirability of employing the principle of insurance in order to lessen the cost of futu..."

"May I repeat what I have suggested in a former message: That because economic and social reforms of this character are essentially national in scope and in administration, the citizens of our nation b..."

"I believe that it provides an adequate basis for legislation which will make possible a program of crop insurance applying to wheat for the crop year 1938."

"Crop insurance and a system of storage reserves would help to protect the income of individual farmers against the hazards of crop failure."