I wanted Senator Johnson to run on this ticket for two reasons.

If we succeed here, if we are strong in this country, if we are carrying out policies of assistance to our people, if we hold out the hand of friendship abroad, if we present an image of vitality and strength, then the people around the…

I come to Houston to melt the ice - and I don't mean the ice on that rink.

This is an important election; in many ways it is more important than the election of 1932, for what was at stake in 1932 was the preservation of freedom here in the United States.

I can think of no assignment more important for a new administration than to try to reestablish the atmosphere which was so happily established in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, the Good Neighbor Policy.

I do not run for the Presidency because it is an easy job.

When the Texans died for Texan independence, there were not only native born Texans in the Alamo; there were not only citizens of Tennessee and North Carolina, but there was a citizen from Massachusetts, William Lynn, who came here to shed…

Texas has twice, in 1952 and 1956, jumped off the Democratic band wagon.

We will flash the green light for river basin development.

I don't agree with it.

I think that the Democratic Party can continue to function if it looks not only to the past, but to the future, and if it looks to all sections of the United States for support.

The Democratic Party is a multi-interest party. It includes ranchers and farmers from Texas, it includes textile workers from Massachusetts, it includes businessmen in California.

Lyndon Johnson and I run for the office of President and Vice President recognizing that this is a difficult and trying time for us all, that it calls for the best in the American Republic, the best spirit, the best determination, the…

I come among you asking hard work for the future.

If we are elected, we are going to build an American security and an American defense second to none.

If we stand still, if we look back, if we mark time while the Communists move ahead, then people in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, will determine that the future belongs to the East and not to the West.

And I want to thank all of you, and especially all you women, for the kind reception they were given here in Houston.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end.