"Reverend Meza, Reverend Reck, I'm grateful for your generous invitation to speak my views."
"You know in Texas that you live or die, that you are at war or at peace, that you are secure or in danger, not based upon the policies of one district or one State, but based upon the policies of the ..."
"I don't agree with it."
"Texas has twice, in 1952 and 1956, jumped off the Democratic band wagon."
"When the Texans died for Texan independence, there were not only native born Texans in the Alamo; there were not only citizens of Tennessee and North Carolina, but there was a citizen from Massachuset..."
"Times and the problems since the Good Neighbor Policy have changed, but the thing that was most important about Roosevelt's administration was the atmosphere that was established, the feeling of inter..."
"I come today not as a citizen of Massachusetts, but as a fellow American."
"But if, on the other hand, I should win the election, then I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling the oath of the Presidency."
"I do not run for the Presidency because it is an easy job."
"I can think of no assignment more important for a new administration than to try to reestablish the atmosphere which was so happily established in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, the Good Ne..."
"He is the man who ran for help."
"In the American Revolution, Thomas Paine said, 'The cause of America is the cause of all mankind;' I think in 1960, the cause of all mankind is the cause of America."
"I do mean whatever is cool between Texans and the Democratic Party."
"I ask you to join us in this great effort, and I can assure you that if we are successful, this country will begin to move again."
"If we are elected, every American, man or woman, who seeks to work will find it in a growing and expanding economy."
"I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition - to judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress."
"The Democratic Party belongs to all the people."
"And right there lies one of the great issues in this campaign - an issue that divides the parties and the candidates."