Richard Nixon

We are tremendously pleased and may I say humble in the presence of this wonderful crowd here in Council Bluffs.

I say: Travel through this country, and you will realize what a great and a good land it is.

To maintain that peace we, of course, must do things which are essential to give us the instrument which will keep the peace and they are, of course, the ones that are familiar to you.

We must have firmness and nonbelligerence and we must have diplomacy in which the President does not answer insult with insult, but maintains the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States.

Which of the two candidates for the Vice Presidency and the Presidency can best provide the leadership for America and the free world in these next 4 years which will keep the peace without surrender and which will extend the freedom…

I want to speak now of another kind of strength that is more important than all these, that will be more decisive in this great struggle than all these, and I speak of the moral and spiritual fiber of this country that makes it strong.

I make it clear that as far as that strength is concerned, it must come before all other considerations and it is the responsibility of the American people that we always maintain that strength we presently have.

Whoever is President, I think, must examine any invitation to the summit with the greatest of care.

I do believe, and I won't mind going this far, that in attacking the problem we should set a time in which we intend to deal with it.

The farmer's problem is obviously a keen political issue.

I don't believe any good purpose is served by pointing to some of the State Department officials who were doing the best they could and who at the time would have justification for saying what they did if things had turned out differently.

I do not think there was a religious issue in fact, and I would do everything I could to keep it out.

The foreign policy critics made the same charge in 1956 when President Eisenhower was running.

I believe that as far as I am concerned it has been reached.

My knee is coming along fine.

I don't believe that the issue is a minor issue.

I will only say this: We can be proud of our tremendous progress in reclamation and power in comparison with any country; but this is especially true compared with the Soviet Union.

The speech is already prepared.

The time has come to put greater emphasis on new starts for sound multiple-purpose projects.

We are interested in actual performance, not just promises.

A train just doesn't cover enough territory fast enough in the State of California.

America has progressed over the last 8 years to unparalleled heights of solid economic accomplishment.

This Republican record is not, in anybody's language, 'standing still.'

Senator Kennedy is, of course, in a different position from what I am, and I understand that.

One of the most encouraging aspects of this campaign has been that young people, even more than in 1952 and 1956, are taking an active part.