And may God grant us that understanding.

This State has supplied to Washington some of our greatest Democrats.

I want to particularly thank the band for coming out and giving us such good music.

I WANT to thank the band and all the good people who have come out here to give us such a warm welcome.

You have great quality but you need better quantity.

As a matter of fact, I know of no State in the Union that supplies better public servants than the State of Minnesota.

We must not be content to sit back in our rocking chair and let the rest of the world go by, because we must have objectives, we must have ambitions, we must have the pioneering spirit today that came to this Nation 200 years ago.

But we are going to wipe out poverty and we are going to reach full employment.

I am very fond of your Senators and your entire congressional delegation in Washington.

But we will not let the record of the last few years lull us into confidence or complacency or contentment.

But our future doesn't depend on that and that is not the strength of our future.

In the past 4 years we have moved farther and faster toward the goals that we share than at any time in our country's history.

I want to repeat again to you good people who have made this sacrifice to come out here this evening, in all of these fields your principles, Minnesota principles, have helped to shape the progress of all America.

You no longer stand alone. You are part of a great national forward march, and I am here to tell you that as long as I am President of the United States you will never be alone.

In the past 4 years, under Democratic leadership, we have reached new heights of prosperity.

It is only the beginning of the journey.

This is the kind of America that we are going to build.

And the almost 3 billion people in the rest of the world who have never known the pleasure and prosperity that is ours, who have never shared the freedom that belongs to us--they watch our every move to see which direction our life will…