If the United States is going to meet its commitments around the world, and I favor the United States meeting all of its commitments, if we are going to maintain in this country and around the world the cause of freedom, if we are going to…

Mr. Nixon can apply any label he wants to this record, but the record speaks far more eloquently than his changing definitions.

I spent long enough in the Pacific Ocean to know the difficulties with which Mr. Nixon is now facing the United States, if he has his way.

I pledge that a new administration will move at once to put our people back to work.

Mr. Nixon can call it practical progressivism or economic conservatism, but the label does not hide the package.

The Republican Party has vetoed the needs of Pennsylvania, has vetoed Pennsylvania.

I think Mr. Nixon and the Republican Party will be rejected on November 8, 1960.

We are on the frontier of an era which holds the possibilities of a new Golden Age in which the inroads of poverty, hunger, and disease will be lessened.

I want them to be named after American statesmen of the sixties and seventies.

I believe it is important that this country have new leadership.

I run against a candidate, Mr. Nixon, who runs on the slogan 'You never had it so good.'

We must also recognize that a free society today demands that we keep on learning or face the threat of national deterioration.

We have to do better than that.

We see two independent countries, Guinea, independent in 1958, now supports the Communist position at the U.N.

I hope it is a chance, as it has been in our history, for the United States to make a determination as to what it wants to be and what it must do.

You cannot run as a risktaker abroad, as Mr. Nixon has said, and a conservative at home.

I believe that an America that understands the importance of 'lifelong learning' will be able to deal with those problems more wisely and more vigorously.

My opponent says now he, too, is concerned.

The Republican leaders have always opposed progress in such areas.

I stand in direct succession to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt who in their day and generation recognized that there was a responsibility for the people as a whole, working through their government, to move this country ahead, and I…

I come here to this community and to this State, and I come here and ask your support.

I do not downgrade the United States. I have the greatest confidence in it.

I come here to Ann Arbor, Mich., and I ask your support.

I believe that those who serve freedom in 1960 should tell the American people that this is the best of times, but it is also then a time of hazard, that the United States is not meeting its responsibility, that the tide is not moving in…

But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe that I am ready.