Richard Nixon

The old leadership is thinking of treating the symptoms of inflation by bringing to bear the most harmful tool in the economist's kit: Wage and Price Controls.

As more disadvantaged Americans are being trained for jobs, the question on many a workingman's mind is this: 'Is that my job he's being trained to take over?'

The average weekly pay buys less than it did three years ago.

The unemployed man today is the workingman's burden.

In terms of real income the average workingman has two dollars less in his envelope now than he did in the first year of this administration.

The time has come when America must reappraise—in a most searching, measured, and fundamental way—its role and its responsibilities in the world.

Peace today requires strength of will, strength of arms, and strength of purpose.

But if the new generation is no longer prisoner of the old isms, neither is it sold on the American idea.

In its preoccupation with the war in Vietnam the present Administration has lost America's leadership in the world.

Within the term of the next President I believe the foundation for a lasting peace can be laid.

It's time for a new beginning.

Peace is everybody's business, and the pursuit of peace is everybody's responsibility.

Vietnam has been a profoundly sobering lesson in the limits of U.S. power.

It's time we looked to our consciences.

We should stop the draft and put our Selective Service structure on stand-by.

It's hardly competitive with what most people can earn in civilian life.

Once our involvement in the Vietnam war is behind us, we move toward an all-volunteer armed force.

I say it's time we took a new look at the draft—at the question of permanent conscription in a free society.

The most important message I receive from young people today is this: 'Don't try to hand us our lives on a silver platter.'

They are more socially conscious, more politically aware, and much better educated than their parents were at age 18.

Youth today has a right to demand that an older generation live up to two responsibilities: to guide and to listen.

We will see youth respect its elders when we show some respect for the opinions of our youngsters.

This is a yawning gulf of irritated boredom between the two halves of our body politic.

We have to level with students.

Beginnings are being made.