The continuing global proliferation of nuclear weapons is a dangerous and unacceptable barrier to world peace.

We have committed two-thirds of all of our federal energy research and development funds to atomic power.

Any country possessing a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant can recover the plutonium needed to make an atomic bomb from the spent fuel rods of an atomic power reactor.

We must not use the difficulty of the nuclear proliferation problem as an excuse to justify timidity on the part of the United States in standing up for the goal of world peace through limitation on the proliferation of nuclear weapons…

This is not the kind of nation that we had.

The Republicans have managed for the past eight years to give us both rising unemployment rates and rising inflation.

Leadership must be derived not from an imperialistic attitude toward the Presidency, but from a constant realization of the source of the leader's strength.

We prefer a minimum of secrecy in government and a maximum of privacy in our own lives.

My political support in the primaries, my strength if I become President, will be derived directly from the people.

I owe special interests nothing. I owe the people everything.

The Republicans have proved they can give us high unemployment and high inflation at the same time.

I want the government to change.

In the absence of that leadership, there is no leadership.

Ours is a government, ours is a nation that requires strong leadership in the White House.

I give you my word of honor. I don't believe anybody who has been bogged down in Washington 25 or 30 years is going to make a change that's basic.

We need to decrease the influence of lobbyists and special interest groups.

There is only one person in this country who can speak with a clear voice to the American people.

I think it's time for Democratic leadership that can enact economic policies that put people ahead of the special interests.