We need all the talent we can get.

El tiempo se nos esta yendo de las manos para la oportunidad de volver a estrechar los lazos tan vitales para ambas partes, la norte y sur del Hemisferio.

A presidential campaign in 1960 is too important and too critical to permit confusion concerning the record or the views of the candidates

I think we cannot afford in 1960 to waste any talent which we have.

Equality of opportunity in the field of housing... could be done by a stroke of the president's pen.

Actually a far greater responsibility rests upon the Negro leadership than it does upon the leadership of almost any other group.

until every American enjoys his full constitutional rights

The fact is they are free and independent.

Can we demonstrate over a long period of time that our system represents the best means of organizing human society?

I believe we should not carry out a hard money, high interest rate policy which helped intensify... the recession of 1958.

A political campaign is an important time because it gives the American people an opportunity to make a judgment as to which course of action they want to follow, which leadership, which viewpoint, which political philosophy.

I believe such a conference can serve a valuable purpose.

I come here in 1960, to this State of Ohio, seeking the election as President of the United States, recognizing that the responsibilities and burdens of the next President will be greater than any since 1860 and 1861.

Because the power and prestige of the United States, relative to that of the Communist world, has diminished in the last decade; because these people wonder whether the future belongs to the Castros and the Khrushchevs and the neutralists…

I think it is time you changed.

I don't believe that the American people are going to give their endorsement to the leadership which believes that medical care for our older citizens, financed under social security, is extreme, and I quote Mr. Nixon accurately - which he…

It is a critical situation - to find so dangerous an enemy on our very doorstep.

I have long been aware that the traffic in illicit narcotics is one of our major law enforcement problems.