01/15/1990
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Your FFA experience is giving you powerful skills and drive to help this country compete in the decades ahead."
"Thank God we are exporting now, or a lot more people in Missouri would be hurting."
"And I want to salute the FFA for bringing so many of you together to exchange ideas and forge friendships that will brighten our country for many years to come."
"I really believe that if the Soviet Union had been blessed with an organization like the FFA that their problems in agriculture wouldn't be nearly as big, nearly as horrible as they are today."