We have to do better than that.

As long as there are things which are left to be done, I think it is the function of the Democratic Party to complete the unfinished business of this society, to get our country moving again, to provide jobs for our people.

Lincoln said 100 years ago, ‘The times are new and the perils are new. We must disentangle ourselves from the past.’

I have seen that face someplace, but I don't know exactly where [laughter].

We are on the frontier of an era which holds the possibilities of a new Golden Age in which the inroads of poverty, hunger, and disease will be lessened.

I stand in direct succession to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt who in their day and generation recognized that there was a responsibility for the people as a whole, working through their government, to move this country ahead, and I…

The question is, Which candidate and which political party can mobilize the resources of the United States and the resources of the entire free world to turn the tide of freedom against the Communists?

I come here and ask your support, not merely to build this State of Michigan, not merely to strengthen this community, but to strengthen the United States, to move it forward, to have it stand once again as an inspiration to all those who…

I believe that this is an important election, and I believe that there are great issues which separate our parties, separate the candidates, issues which divide not the United States, but which indicate a different philosophy for the…

The Republican leaders have always opposed progress in such areas.

I believe the central responsibility of the administration that is coming in in January is to maintain full employment.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine Justice weighs the sins of the coldblooded and the sins of the warmhearted in a different scale.

For I believe that the American people are going to reject a party which - again in Mr. Nixon's words - believes that \unemployment is inevitable.\

I think the United States, if it is going to maintain its independence, if it is going to maintain the independence of those who look to us, I don't want to see the United States - or historians say that in 1960 we stood still.

I hope it is a chance, as it has been in our history, for the United States to make a determination as to what it wants to be and what it must do.

In my judgment, it wants to be not only a great country, which it is; it wants to be a greater country.

This issue separates Mr. Nixon and myself and it separates the Republican and Democratic Parties.

A national campaign provides an opportunity to consider the facts and issues on major problems of our times.