The United States is moving into a period which will feature great opportunities for us as well as great responsibilities and great burdens.

Here is the headline on these findings which have been kept secret up to today: 'United States Survey Funds Others Consider the Soviet Union the Mightiest.'

I believe there are two basic responsibilities which the next President of the United States must meet.

Anyone who does not realize that this is one of the great problems which is going to face us as citizens, anyone who does not realize that today we are only using 50 percent of the capacity of our steel mills, today in the last 5 or 10…

And I'll tell you why it's a false issue.

I want to express my thanks to you for coming today.

Let me say that I think you ought to be commended for admitting it.

But prestige is important.

I think it is time to trust the American people - to face up to the facts - and to decide what we must do.

There are no facts here the Russians do not know - but there are facts here the American people deserve to know.

But if you share the view that I hold very vigorously, that this country is going to have to do better in the future, that we have responsibilities to meet not only to ourselves but to the cause of freedom, that we are anxious to make sure…

I want to thank all of you who came out today.

He said he favored raising teachers' pay.

I don't believe that the United States is meeting its responsibilities to itself and to those around the world who look to it for leadership.

This election ought to be won in these areas surrounding the great cities, the suburbs, suburbia, or whatever you may call it, people who make an independent judgment on what is best for their State, their families, their country, the…

I campaign for the Presidency with a full recognition that that office will bear more responsibility than it has in the last 100 years since the administration of Lincoln.

I have made the charge in this campaign that our prestige has been declining, and our prestige is important, because it involves the question of whether other countries will follow our leadership.

I come here today as the Democratic standard bearer in a most important election.

We live in the midst of a population explosion that is remaking the face of America.

I recognize that I run for the key office, not only in the United States, but also in the free world.

I want to make it very clear that I am not a bit satisfied as a citizen of this country, with our present rate of growth, with our present image in the world, with our present sense of national purpose.

Unless we grow more, unless we employ fiscal and monetary policies that stimulate employment, we are going to have a recession in the winter of 1961.

We cannot rebuild our prestige under a leader who tells us it is now at an all-time high.

I believe as a dissatisfied citizen, as one who has the greatest possible confidence in this country, that we are going to have to meet a higher standard as a Nation and as leaders of the free world.

We have increased our economic growth on the average of about 2.5 percent in the last 8 years.