We want Americans to travel.

This is a time for action.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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

We think America is a beautiful land.

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

The seas are not our only recourse and that we aim to make it feasible to mine, desalt, and put to productive use the brackish groundwater which underlies more than 2 million square miles of the United States.

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

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

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.

I want this Nation to lead the effort to close this gap--not in the next 50 years but in the next 5 years.

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.

This is a very proud and very gratifying occasion.

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

It is a landmark bill because of its new ideas.