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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

We need ambassadors and cabinet officers, we need people on every level with a sense of our times, with a sense of the future, with a sense of the difficulties of a free society competing with a Communist society.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

The whole Louisiana Purchase, his decision to send Lewis and Clark to the Pacific - all that represented a change.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

Members of the House of Representatives are given under the Constitution power to levy taxes, the power to appropriate money.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

For that will be achieved, not by painting everything rosy colors, as the Vice President seemed to suggest in our debate last night, but by showing our ability to face the facts and to make a responsible choice.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

My judgment is that the Republican Party as presently constituted and presently led has not demonstrated either in the past or during this campaign that they have this kind of competence.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

I cannot believe in the dangerous years of the 1960's that the American people are going to say 'No' to progress by electing the Republican Party again.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

To just mouth the old slogans, to talk about the problems of China as if it were just a problem of keeping them out of the United Nations - that is easy.

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