I say to you today that the important thing is not the party, but the country, and I ask you to vote for whatever is best for America.

I say that America is far more than the sum of the conflicting wishes of our sections and groups.

Senator Kennedy would throw onto the unemployment rolls approximately 1 million people now engaged in serving the needs of farm people and handling their products.

Remember, it's your money, and, after all, if we can do what needs to be done, what will produce the progress, what will defend this country with a program which is effective, which costs less, that's what you want, because every time we…

The Presidency is not the property of any bloc or special interest; it must be the office of all - all Americans.

Mr. Khrushchev publicly boasts of his intention to catch up with the United States in the production of such farm products as meat and milk.

In addition, the Senator would raise Government costs.

We've got to have somebody in the White House who remembers that he can belong not to any one group in this country; he's got to belong to all the American people and stand for them.

The Kennedy plan is planned inflation.

Our real new frontier lies, not in fragmenting the Nation's interests but in uniting the national purpose.

He would cut the size of the farm output by about one-fifth, or about the equivalent of another million jobs.

We will have our diplomacy firm, but without belligerence.

Senator Kennedy would cut, throughout America, the supply of beef and pork per person below what we had during the rationing days of World War II.

He would also tighten the grip of Government controls, at least quadruple the number of Federal inspectors who enforce Government regulations.

We can have the best jobs and the best social security; we can have the finest housing...and, you know, it isn't going to make any difference if we aren't around to enjoy them.

There has been some talk around the country that Senator Kennedy really does not agree with a number of his platform pledges.

We need to move forward on all fronts.

The last thing we want...is to give to Federal bureaucrats the power to pay our teachers and then the right to tell them what to teach.