We must act together to solve the immediate crisis that is facing us.

It is my own studied and considered judgment, however, that this bill that you are witnessing being signed this morning will be the most historic of all of them: not for what it provides but rather for what it promises, not for what it…

The pollution that is taking place in this country, and the effect that a few industrial plants are having on the future of our country, is absolutely disgraceful.

All Americans are really heirs of travelers who originally came here from far across the seas to cast their lot in this great country of ours.

Three of our cities, ships at sea, the oil fields of other lands already depend upon desalting plants.

I am very delighted to see so many Members of the House and many of my friends in the Senate come here this morning.

I may or may not be the most optimistic person in America about the progress we can make on desalting the seas, but I am, and I intend to remain, the most determined man that we shall make the great breakthroughs before the calendar turns…

I need all the help I can get in that field.

There is always a certain amount of cynicism among members of the executive branch and, I guess, sometimes among even members of the press about the productiveness of the Congress.

As rapidly as we develop economic desalting plants, we be prepared to share our technology with other countries where desalting offers the best answer to their local water problems.

Your President feels that we should encourage our own citizens and the citizens of other nations to get better acquainted with what we have here in America.

What was impossible and inconceivable yesterday is very near to reality today.

Our net loss this year is going to be nearly $2 billion on tourists abroad—almost $2 billion.

We think America is a beautiful land.

I thank you and I appreciate what you have done, and what you are willing to do.

This is a time for action.

We have new resources of abundant energy that can provide the power that this will require.

We want Americans to travel.

Ours is really an open land, an open society with no walls around it, nothing to hide within it, and we want the world and we want Americans themselves to see the U.S.A.

This is a very proud and very gratifying occasion.

This legislation represents the single most important breakthrough in the last 40 years.

I pledge to you that we shall do all that must be done to fulfill our commitment.

It is a landmark bill because of its new ideas.

This measure votes 'no' on 'America the Ugly'--and it votes 'yes' on preserving, for our posterity, 'America the Beautiful.'

No man and no woman ever grows too old or too successful to forget the memory of a childhood home that was without lights, and that was without water, and that was without covering on the floor.