US Presidency
1961

I propose further that the OECD establish a Development Center, where citizens and officials, and students and professional men of the Atlantic area and the less developed world can meet to study in common the problems of economic development. If we in the Atlantic Community can more closely coordinate our own economic policies and certainly the OECD provides the framework if we but use it, and I hope that you will join as we are seeking to join to use it then surely our potential economic resources are adequate to meet our responsibility. Consider, for example, the unsurpassed productivity of our farms. Less than 8 percent of the American working force is on our farms; less than 11 percent of the Canadian working force is on yours. Fewer men on fewer acres than any nation on earth but free men on free acres can produce here in North America all the food that a hungry world could use while all the collective farms and forced labor of the communist system produce one shortage after another.