Richard Nixon

Memphis is a splendid example, this whole State of Tennessee, the neighboring State of Arkansas, and the neighboring State of Mississippi.

The question is: How do we build a better America?

I want to say, too, I'm honored that the mayor of this great city, who supports my opponent, was gracious enough to welcome me.

Because this is where they want to fight, and this is all they have to offer.

I noted that Memphis, from the little slip that the mayor handed me as I got in my car, is proud of the fact, and justly so, that you have 670 churches, and that's about 10 more than you have service stations.

The difference is that ours will work where theirs will not because we call on all the energies of this country.

They played politics with it because they preferred an issue to doing something for the people of West Virginia and the people of this country.

We want better schools, better housing, better medical care.

We cannot win it simply by being stronger militarily than the Communists.

We want to see our agriculture come forward with our farmers throughout the country getting a better share.

We say the way to progress is not to rely on an all-powerful Federal Government, to weaken the individual, to weaken the State, but to tap all the resources of America.

May I say first to you how very moved Pat and I are by your reception, particularly on this day when the weather is a bit, as we in California say, unusual.

This time they're going to look beneath the party labels and see whether or not the label covers the real thing.

The Republican bill would have provided $3.9 million.

May no President of the United States, Democratic or Republican, ever consider it necessary to apologize or express regrets to Mr. Khrushchev for defending the security of the United States of America.

I say that the principles I outline tonight are bigger than our party.

In America nobody must ever want to go back.

I am proud of the record of this administration in this field.

We say the way to progress is not to weaken the States, but to strengthen the States and the local governments.

They just passed it by word of mouth.

We have to remember that the cold war that Mr. Khrushchev is waging... is waged right here in the United States.

It isn't a question of how much the federal government spends; it isn't a question of which government does the most. It is a question of which administration does the right thing.

Let us understand throughout this campaign that his motives and mine are sincere.

I subscribe completely to the spirit that Senator Kennedy has expressed tonight, the spirit that the United States should move ahead.

In that respect, may I just suggest this, if you carry the argument to its logical extreme and you were to say, 'Well, the more the Federal Government spends the better,' we might as well go whole hog and have the Federal Government do…