The strength of America is not inputting all of our problems over to Washington.

In that respect, may I just suggest this, if you carry the argument to its logical extreme and you were to say, 'Well, the more the Federal Government spends the better,' we might as well go whole hog and have the Federal Government do…

What I do want to say is this: As far as the goals which Mr. Hutcheson described in his speech this morning - I had a report of it - are concerned, certainly I believe in those goals: better housing, better health, better jobs.

I say to this great convention here today, only if you believe that what I stand for, what I believe in, will be best for America, best for your children, as well as for yourselves, do I ask for your support.

I will only give you my credentials.

It isn't a question of how much the federal government spends; it isn't a question of which government does the most. It is a question of which administration does the right thing.

I can only say I would rather be a grocery clerk in the United States than to have his job in the Soviet Union.

I subscribe completely to the spirit that Senator Kennedy has expressed tonight, the spirit that the United States should move ahead.

Let us understand throughout this campaign that his motives and mine are sincere.

We have to remember that the cold war that Mr. Khrushchev is waging... is waged right here in the United States.

There must be no arbitrary barriers - neither racial nor economics.

To cover such costs might help greatly.

We dare not waste it; we dare not misapply it; we dare not be satisfied with standards of mediocrity.

We are living in a civilization and in a world and at a pitch of crisis that put an ultimate premium on sheer brainpower - fully developed and unstintingly applied.

Let me make this clear: in our foreign affairs, as at home, I do not say we have achieved perfection.

I believe that the charge that America's prestige in the world is lost, or impaired, or low, or declining, is both absurd and irresponsible.

The contrast between the President's attitude and his will speak more eloquently than anything any of us could say about it.

My point is that if the Government was responsible, primarily, for these surpluses which are on the farmer's back which depress the prices, if the Government was responsible for putting the farmer where he is, the Government must bear the…