I can insure that consolidation will not be a cover to reduce needed federal assistance, or to change the distribution of benefits so as to discriminate against those individuals with the greatest need.

I think the public at large does not yet realize that what we confront is not just New York City's fiscal crisis, but a national problem.

The time has come for us to work together toward a restoration of federalism, through the creation of a balanced national partnership that is based on mutual trust, mutual respect, and mutual commitment to the future of the American city.

Our present system is a failure deplored alike by those who pay for it, those who administer it, and those who supposedly benefit from it.

We simply can no longer afford the price of the red tape.

I pledge to you that if I become President, you, the mayors of America, will have a friend, an ally, and a partner in the White House.

It is time for our government leaders to recognize that the people who inhabit even the poorest and most deteriorating of our central cities are our fellow Americans.

I believe that if we talk sense to the American people, we will find support for a realistic program to meet the urban crisis.

We are deeply concerned, not only by such obvious tragedies as the war in Vietnam, but by the more subtle erosion in the focus and the morality of our foreign policy.

I will work with our allies, some of whom are also selling arms, and also seek to work with the Soviets, to increase the emphasis on peace and to reduce the commerce in weapons of war.

There must be bipartisan harmony and collaboration between the President and the Congress, and we must reestablish a spirit of common purpose among democratic nations.

The primary purpose of our foreign policy is to create and maintain a world environment within which our great experiment in freedom can survive and flourish.

What we seek is for our nation to have a foreign policy that reflects the decency and generosity and common sense of our own people.

We simply must have an international policy of democratic leadership, and we must stop trying to play a lonely game of power politics.

East-West relations will be both cooperative and competitive for a long time to come.

We seek not a condominium of the powerful but a community of the free.

My first entry in the government life was as a member of a county school board.

I believe that with the purpose expressed by the teaching profession... whatever obstacles are there can be substantially eliminated.