It's time for a new beginning.

Within the term of the next President I believe the foundation for a lasting peace can be laid.

In its preoccupation with the war in Vietnam the present Administration has lost America's leadership in the world.

The time has come when America must reappraise—in a most searching, measured, and fundamental way—its role and its responsibilities in the world.

Once our involvement in the Vietnam war is behind us, we move toward an all-volunteer armed force.

It's hardly competitive with what most people can earn in civilian life.

It's time we looked to our consciences.

We should stop the draft and put our Selective Service structure on stand-by.

I say it's time we took a new look at the draft—at the question of permanent conscription in a free society.

They are more socially conscious, more politically aware, and much better educated than their parents were at age 18.

The most important message I receive from young people today is this: 'Don't try to hand us our lives on a silver platter.'

We have to level with students.

This is a yawning gulf of irritated boredom between the two halves of our body politic.

We will see youth respect its elders when we show some respect for the opinions of our youngsters.

Youth today has a right to demand that an older generation live up to two responsibilities: to guide and to listen.

We cannot afford to let volunteers become mere foot-soldiers in a battle directed from Washington.

As the nation's first citizen, the President should be the chief patron of citizen efforts.

The problem lies not with the American people, but with a government that has lost touch with the people.