Any setbacks in our prestige should naturally affect our thinking as well - our choice of policies - our choice of leadership.

This is a contest between the concerned and the comfortable, and you have to decide what you are, comfortable or concerned.

Secondly, how can we maintain the peace and maintain our own security around the world and strengthen freedom?

Only the President of the United States can place before the American people the unfinished business of our society.

First, can we in this country maintain full employment, build a stronger and more vital society, that demonstrates that freedom and productivity go hand in hand together?

We cannot rebuild our prestige under a leader who tells us it is now at an all-time high.

I have made the charge in this campaign that our prestige has been declining, and our prestige is important, because it involves the question of whether other countries will follow our leadership.

I want you to join me in serving this country and moving this country forward.

Possibly he is so uninformed on world affairs that he did not know our prestige had declined.

I speak in the Senate for Massachusetts.

And we owe it to our Nation to educate our children, for the bedrock of democracy is a constantly rising level of the education of its citizens.

There are no facts here the Russians do not know - but there are facts here the American people deserve to know.

Only the President of the United States speaks for California and Illinois and Massachusetts, and he speaks for more than the United States.

That is the issue which you have to decide.

I believe as a dissatisfied citizen, as one who has the greatest possible confidence in this country, that we are going to have to meet a higher standard as a Nation and as leaders of the free world.

But if you share the view that I hold very vigorously, that this country is going to have to do better in the future, that we have responsibilities to meet not only to ourselves but to the cause of freedom, that we are anxious to make sure…

This survey shows how misinformed he is, how wide is the gap between what he believes and what the facts are

I think your presence here, whether you are Republican or Democrat, whether you wish to click with Dick or whether you wish to move this country forward.