Richard Nixon

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.

I say to this great convention here today, only if you believe that what I stand for, what I believe in, will be best for America, best for your children, as well as for yourselves, do I ask for your support.

I will only give you my credentials.

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

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.

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

I can only say I would rather be a grocery clerk in the United States than to have his job in the Soviet Union.

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

They respect firmness.

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…

I do not tell you that the Federal Government is the answer to all of our problems.

What I do want to say is this: As far as the goals which Mr. Hutcheson described in his speech this morning - I had a report of it - are concerned, certainly I believe in those goals: better housing, better health, better jobs.

The strength of America is not inputting all of our problems over to Washington.

We are living in a civilization and in a world and at a pitch of crisis that put an ultimate premium on sheer brainpower - fully developed and unstintingly applied.

We dare not waste it; we dare not misapply it; we dare not be satisfied with standards of mediocrity.

To cover such costs might help greatly.

There must be no arbitrary barriers - neither racial nor economics.

Let me make this clear: in our foreign affairs, as at home, I do not say we have achieved perfection.

The contrast between the President's attitude and his will speak more eloquently than anything any of us could say about it.

My point is that if the Government was responsible, primarily, for these surpluses which are on the farmer's back which depress the prices, if the Government was responsible for putting the farmer where he is, the Government must bear the…

I believe that the charge that America's prestige in the world is lost, or impaired, or low, or declining, is both absurd and irresponsible.

I will not go into detail on that particular point.

Neither extreme makes sense to me.

Before explaining Operation Safeguard, I want to restate certain things stressed in my Iowa talk last week, that I consider basic to all farm discussions.

It is also the principle that unites men of good will throughout the world.