John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I still find it impossible to understand why Mr. Nixon wants to limit the debate to one subject where there are so many important problems facing the American people.

But the Bible tells us to judge a tree by its fruits. For 'what is past is prologue'...

The kind of society we build here, the kind of country we develop here, that is the test of our ability to lead around the world.

It is more than a contest between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. It is a contest between the contented and the concerned, between those who wish to stand still and those who wish to move ahead.

I come here today and ask your support in this campaign in building this country of ours.

I want the people of the world to wake up in the morning and wonder what the United States is doing, not what Mr. Khrushchev is doing.

I run for the Presidency in the most serious time in the life of our country and these issues involve the security of everybody here.

I am confident I am talking to the rulers of America, in the sense that all educated men and women have the obligation to accept the discipline of self-government.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

I plan to appear at the fifth debate prepared to answer any questions which the panel may wish to ask me.

We are going to have to do much better.

The Bible tells us that 'whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'

On all the great issues which disturb our country, minimum wage, social security, unemployment compensation, houses, roads, schools, hospitals, our parties have divided and we have divided, and the great questions for the 1960's are how is…

I think the fifth debate should include all questions which the members of the press [panel] feel are of importance.

We cannot predict what new problems will come across our desks in the next 4 years.

If He has a place and a part for us, I believe we are ready.

I believe this country can do better by its retired citizens - and we can start in November by retiring Mr. Nixon.

On November 8, the American people will say 'No' to Mr. Nixon.

I run as a Democrat.

We must reject all proposals such as those of the Department of Commerce and the Budget Bureau of the Eisenhower-Nixon administration for imposition of burdens upon the use of the waterways - including tolls, toll-equivalent taxes and…

These latter two are important issues but I think the American people want and deserve to hear us discuss all the important problems which face our country and to limit the subject of the fifth to one country would be to subvert the…

I think the great opportunity was really denied in 1957, during the last days of the Batista administration.

Mr. Nixon and I both want peace. All Americans do.

Your telegram to me tonight clearly indicates I was right in calling for such a debate - for the distortions of the record concerning my position on Cuba exceed any others you have made during this campaign.

The pursuit of peace is still the focus of our leadership, our energies, and our determination.