I say it’s time we stopped the downward spiral where it began - on the farm.

I want to emphasize that this is not a contest merely between Mr. Nixon and myself.

When the farmer can’t buy cars, the autoworker loses his job, and steel mills go down to 50 percent of capacity, as they are today.

It is time to raise the American tide.

In order that we may compete, we need strong leadership at the top and in my judgment only the President of the United States can provide that leadership.

Farmers do business with the Secretary of Agriculture, and they have learned long ago that you can't do business with Benson.

I have never advocated and I do not now advocate intervention in Cuba in violation of our treaty obligations and in fact stated in Johnstown, Pa., that whatever we did with regard to Cuba should be within the confines of international law.

If there are going to be inequalities, it should be on the grounds of their ability and dedication, not on the grounds of their color.

I believe that peace, like any other goal, requires action.

Words alone will never impress Mr. Khrushchev.

For peace takes more than words.

We must work to rebuild our rapidly deteriorating defenses.

I run with the idea not of downgrading our country, because my confidence in this country is unlimited.

The great problem that we face as citizens of this hemisphere is to prevent other countries from following that example.

These are the traditional issues, old but still new, and I believe that the next President and the next Congress must meet their responsibilities in this field.

It has been the Democratic Party that ran Wilson, Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

I hope that if we are unsuccessful in this campaign, that the campaign, itself, the issue of this election, we will give the next President of the United States, whoever he may be, a sense of purpose, a sense of his obligation to place…

As long as there are people around the world who wish to be free but are not free, as long as there are people around the world who are fighting to maintain their independence, as long as there are people who look to us for leadership, I…