Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"We have not solved the problem of crop stability yet, though we have made much progress."

"I do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, all lands of the United States within the following-described areas are hereby included in and reserved as a part of the Harney National Fores..."

"I hope that Congress will enact appropriate legislation giving its consent to this interstate compact as required by Article I, Section 10, of the Constitution of the United States."

"I believe, therefore, that there is no justification for continued Government subsidy of Federal land bank interest rates below the unprecedentedly low rate these banks are now offering farmer-borrowe..."