John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is an old issue that has been fought in this country year after year, political generation after political generation, and that is between the happy and the content and the fat, and the concerned and those who look forward.

I believe in 1960 the American people are going to move forward again.

What we need is not hindsight; we need foresight.

I endorse Bob Kastenmeier with the greatest enthusiasm.

We must, nevertheless, begin a determined, large-scale effort to prepare ourselves for disarmament.

If we are to secure peace in the 1960's, if we ever hope to negotiate an effective arms control agreement, we must act immediately.

It is the responsibility of the people speaking through their National Government, speaking through their President, to accord them those rights.

Mr. Castro is now a Communist.

Forward, and that is what this country must do, that is the direction it must take, that is the direction it will take November 8, when we make an affirmative decision.

Our stars and our ideal is the welfare of our country and the welfare of freedom.

The struggle for disarmament will not be an easy one.

A few weeks ago, Mr. Nixon put forth his program for peace.

We need a strong economy if we are going to meet our obligations to the underdeveloped world, to maintain our defenses, to meet our needs in education and health and housing.

I say the verdict of history will be that Mr. Benson has been a disaster.

The father who owns a farm and has thousands of dollars invested in farm equipment ends the year with less return than his factory-employed son 'who's invested in one pair of working gloves.'

I believe that before you can have the answers you must have the questions.

I believe that there are, of course, people who are not equal in talent, people who are not equal in motivation.

I suggested a fifth debate close to the election as a means of keeping the record straight - face to face - and correcting any distortions made in the closing days of the campaign.

I believe under new leadership, the kind of leadership which this State has had in recent years, I believe this country can be given leadership, and I believe it can move again, and I ask your help.

No problem is more vital or more urgent in the struggle for peace than the problem of effective arms control.

I believe that the next President of the United States and the next Congress are going to have to deal with three sets of problems, all of them different.

One hundred people working on one of the most important, involved, specialized fields the subject of disarmament, nuclear control.

I do not run as a candidate who says that party labels are unimportant.

I have never advocated and I do not now advocate intervention in Cuba in violation of our treaty obligations and in fact stated in Johnstown, Pa., that whatever we did with regard to Cuba should be within the confines of international law.

This administration has remained almost indifferent to the great challenging problem of the 1950's.