US Presidency
1937

They are less concerned that every detail be immediately right than they are that the direction be right. They know that just so long as we are traveling on the right road, it does not make much difference if occasionally we hit a Thank you marm. The overwhelming majority of our citizens who live by agriculture are thinking ( very ) clearly how they want Government to help them in connection with the production of crops. They want Government help in two ways first, in the control of surpluses, and, second, in the proper use of land. The other day a reporter told me that he had never been able to understand why the Government seeks to curtail crop production and, at the same time, to open up new irrigated acres. He was confusing two totally separate objectives.