Politics

I think the time has come to start doing the job, and doing it full time.

I ask your help in this campaign.

I do not detect any note of urgency in the speeches of the Vice President.

We are going to have to go to work again.

I run for the office of the Presidency after 14 years in the Congress with full recognition of the responsibilities of that office.

This is a great country and I have unlimited confidence in it, and I have served it for 18 years.

But prestige is important.

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

The office of the Presidency is key, and whoever may be the next President, whether it is Mr. Nixon or myself, will be faced with greater responsibilities and greater burdens.

The next 5 years are going to be decisive years in the life of our country.

My belief is that Mr. Nixon runs for the office of the Presidency without emphasizing in his campaign, either because he is not informed or because he does not believe that this is the most serious time in the life of this country.

I speak in the Senate for Massachusetts.

I want to express my thanks to you for coming today.

Let me say that I think you ought to be commended for admitting it.

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.

Mr. Nixon has misstated the facts - either because he chose to misinform the public or because he was uninformed himself.

American prestige, essential to our influence and our security, has declined these last 8 years even more sharply than we realized.

Let me say that Mr. Nixon and I have one thing in common and that is that he just campaigns in Republican districts.