"We must act and act promptly - to solve the problem of automation which threatens millions of Americans with technological unemployment."
"Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement."
"His chief duty, his chief obligation, in fact, his only reason for service, is to tell the truth to the American people, not to serve to please them, but to serve them."
"We have the tools - the legislation and the programs to put men back to work - and in 1961 we are going to do it."
"I wish it were possible to report on this Labor Day that all is well with our democratic economy."
"I want it said in 1970 that we are first, scientifically and militarily, educationally, economically."
"I am sure after spending the day traveling around Michigan that Michigan is going Democratic in November."
"The Presidency of the United States carries heavy responsibilities, especially in the so grave times of international tension."
"A Gallup poll taken in 10 countries a few months ago asked the people of those countries who they thought would be first in 1970, militarily and scientifically, the Russians or the United States."
"Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups."
"I am here to ask for a mandate - a mandate to achieve the promises of that stirring and historic document the 1960 Democratic platform."
"For the labor movement is people."
"I admire the President of the United States as a man, but I do not believe that we can continue the same kind of leadership in the future."
"Give me the men."
"The man who opposes a decent increase in the minimum wage is not likely to be more generous toward a badly underpaid schoolteacher."
"Yes, but I would not carry it to the extreme."
"But I can assure you that if we are successful in the election in November that the depression for this country will be over."
"This country cannot afford, nor can the whole free world afford, 4 more years of a do-nothing Republican leadership."
