Presidency

As long as I am your President, I am going to be President of all the people.

And I intend, as long as I am President, to make sure that the American Government is a model of prudence and economy, and that doesn't mean that we are going to neglect the sick or forget the unemployed.

So long as I am President, I intend to honor the mandate of the Constitution that I am sworn to uphold.

As long as I am President I will bend every effort to make sure that that day never comes.

We are electing on Tuesday, not a committee, not a protégé, not a rescue squad; we are electing a President of the United States.

We are not electing a committee next Tuesday; we are electing a President of the United States.

I want to make it clear that if I am elected President of the United States, I will go to Washington, D.C., and begin to work.

The Presidency and the President has many functions and many responsibilities, many given to him by the Constitution, and others suggested to him by the pressure of events.

I come here tonight as the Democratic standard bearer for the office of the Presidency in the United States, and I come here to Michigan and ask your help.

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

I campaign for the Presidency with a full recognition that that office will bear more responsibility than it has in the last 100 years since the administration of Lincoln.

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.

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.

All I can do as a candidate for the Presidency is to make a judgment on what this country must do.

I believe there are two basic responsibilities which the next President of the United States must meet.

I run for the Presidency in the most serious time in the life of our country and these issues involve the security of everybody here.

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…

I believe the responsibilities which the next President and the next administration will bear are as great as any in our history.