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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

The only thing I am responsible for is moving him out of office on Tuesday, November 8.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

I ask your support not merely for my candidacy or that of my colleagues, but I ask your support in choosing right for this country, in moving this country forward, in picking it up and sending it into the sixties to meet its responsibilities.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 1960

For all this means we are not doing the job; we are not meeting our responsibilities to the future; we are not assuring American leadership in the decade ahead.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 1960

We are not meeting that responsibility when our economy is slipping into its third recession in 6 years.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

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.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

I don't believe that the United States is meeting its responsibilities to itself and to those around the world who look to it for leadership.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

If you are satisfied, if you feel happy about your life, if you feel our country is meeting its responsibilities, then you belong in Mr. Nixon's camp.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

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.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

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

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 22, 1960

The cause of all mankind is the cause of America, and I am confident we are going to meet our responsibilities.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 22, 1960

It is the responsibility of the people speaking through their National Government, speaking through their President, to accord them those rights.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 1960

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

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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· Oct 13, 1957

The surgeon owes all the more a responsibility to the society of which he is an integral part; a responsibility to help make our democratic processes work.

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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· Jun 17, 1957

I don't believe any public official has any greater responsibility than to do his best to get out to every segment of our population facts, statistics, the unvarnished truth about the world and about ourselves.

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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· Aug 11, 1955

There are no circumstances in this case that would serve to distinguish it from others wherein contractors with the United States have suffered losses for which the government was not responsible.

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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· Aug 11, 1955

I see nothing in these circumstances giving rise to equitable liability on the part of the government.

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