John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The office of the Presidency is key, and whoever may be the next President, whether it is Mr. Nixon or myself, will be faced with greater responsibilities and greater burdens.

Secondly, how can we maintain the peace and maintain our own security around the world and strengthen freedom?

The next 5 years are going to be decisive years in the life of our country.

Only the President of the United States can place before the American people the unfinished business of our society.

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

First, can we in this country maintain full employment, build a stronger and more vital society, that demonstrates that freedom and productivity go hand in hand together?

My belief is that Mr. Nixon runs for the office of the Presidency without emphasizing in his campaign, either because he is not informed or because he does not believe that this is the most serious time in the life of this country.

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

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.

The question of whether America represents as strong and vigorous an image as it did years ago goes to the security of everyone who lives in Libertyville.

I want you to join me in serving this country and moving this country forward.

The reason that countries of Africa no longer support the United States and look to it is because we have been indifferent to the problems of that vital continent.

Possibly he is so uninformed on world affairs that he did not know our prestige had declined.

And I say that today our children's schools are not good enough.

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 speak in the Senate for Massachusetts.

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

And we owe it to our Nation to educate our children, for the bedrock of democracy is a constantly rising level of the education of its citizens.

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.

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

Only the President of the United States speaks for California and Illinois and Massachusetts, and he speaks for more than the United States.

We owe it to each individual child to give him the best education he is capable of absorbing.

Our prestige is not based on what we say but what we do, relative to what our enemies do.

That is the issue which you have to decide.

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…