I still find it impossible to understand why Mr. Nixon wants to limit the debate to one subject where there are so many important problems facing the American people.

In 1961 the buck will stop on the desk of the President, will involve more serious problems, involving decisions more highly sophisticated than any in the long history of the United States.

I plan to appear at the fifth debate prepared to answer any questions which the panel may wish to ask me.

We are going to have to do much better.

The Bible tells us that 'whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'

It is time to raise the American tide.

I hope that if we are unsuccessful in this campaign, that the campaign, itself, the issue of this election, we will give the next President of the United States, whoever he may be, a sense of purpose, a sense of his obligation to place…

It has been the Democratic Party that ran Wilson, Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

What we need is not hindsight; we need foresight.

The farm depression, coupled with the general sag in the economy, is America’s No.1 economic problem in 1960.

We must, nevertheless, begin a determined, large-scale effort to prepare ourselves for disarmament.

If we are to secure peace in the 1960's, if we ever hope to negotiate an effective arms control agreement, we must act immediately.

It ill becomes Mr. Nixon to charge that my farm program would raise food prices to consumers greatly.

The cause of all mankind is the cause of America, and I am confident we are going to meet our responsibilities.

The Communist challenge must be met not only with military might but in the Christian spirit of feeding the hungry.

It is the responsibility of the people speaking through their National Government, speaking through their President, to accord them those rights.

Forward, and that is what this country must do, that is the direction it must take, that is the direction it will take November 8, when we make an affirmative decision.

The struggle for disarmament will not be an easy one.