I will oppose any effort to transfer jurisdiction over Indian Reservations without Indian consent, will fully support the National Council on Indian Opportunity and ensure that the Indian people are fully consulted before programs under…

Only the President can hold out a vision of the future and rally the people behind it.

The judgments of history can bestow no honor greater than the title of peacemaker.

The days of a passive Presidency belong to a simpler past.

It's time we once again had an open administration—open to ideas from, the people, and open in its communication with the people—an administration of open doors, open eyes and open minds.

Why do you seek the office? With all the troubles that we have, why would anyone want to be President today?

The lamps of enlightenment are lit by the spark of controversy; their flame can be snuffed out by the blanket of consensus.

Greatness comes from stepping up to events, not from sitting on the sidelines while history is made by others.

America today cannot afford vest-pocket government, no matter who wears the vest.

The next President must take an activist view of his office.

There has been a 31 percent increase in the cost of production, farm debt is up 90 percent, and 903,000 farms have disappeared from the countryside just since 1960.

And I also pledge there will always be an open door for agriculture at the White House.

We will not plow under farmers while trying to help them.

In the Congress and as a member of the Eisenhower Administration, I learned long ago of the immense importance of modern American agriculture to the health and strength of our country.

Plainly, however, our farmers and ranchers have been the stepchildren of the Great Society.

America verges upon the decade of the 70's, and we must make this a period of unmatched progress for agriculture.

Today three out of every ten jobs in our country are directly related to agriculture.

The free world must act to maintain a balance of power to remove the confidence of would-be aggressors.