I want to be a President who acts as well as reacts - who originates programs as well as study groups - who masters complex problems as well as one-page memorandums.

For the last 3 months, in outlining the programs I believe this country needs, I have in effect answered the question why I want to be President.

I think you are here for the same reason that I am, because this is an important election, because we are Democrats, because we believe in progress, and because we are going to win.

And if I am successful on Tuesday, it is my intention to be, in the fullest measure of the word and office, the next President of the United States.

I want to be a President who believes in working full time when millions of men and women are forced to work part time.

I want above all else to be a President known - at the end of 4 years - as one who not only prevented war but won the peace.

I want to be President of all the people.

We are choosing a President of the United States.

I want to be a President who recognizes every citizen's rights as well as his obligations.

I ask your help in finishing the work of this campaign.

I hope to set before the people our unfinished agenda - to indicate their obligations - and not simply follow their every whim and pleasure.

I am not promising action in the first 100 days alone - I am promising you 1,000 days of exacting Presidential leadership.

Everyone in this room, as I look around, has contributed a good deal.

If I am successful, I am going to Washington, D.C., and get this country to work.

For I am not in this campaign merely to win an election - I seek election in order to carry out our program.

I want to be a President who has the confidence of the people - and who takes the people into his confidence.

I come here today to Queens and ask your help in moving this country forward in building our strength, in building our influence abroad, in identifying our selves once again as the great defender of freedom at a time when freedom is under…

But I am grateful to you for being able to stand and say 'Hello.'

I want to try to set as my standard the day Abraham Lincoln called his wartime Cabinet together to read to them his draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

I ask you to join us.

We are the only sentinel at the gate.

For this will be a wholly different nation in 1970 with wholly different needs, and we must begin now to meet those needs.

I think the time has come to start doing the job, and doing it full time.

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.

In America, the people, if they are armed with the truth, can be trusted to make the right decision.