John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

I come today to ask you to join in this effort to strengthen our country, to strengthen freedom, and extend our hand around the world in friendship.

If the United States is going to maintain its position of being a friend of freedom in Latin America, if we are going to be successful in this struggle which is now going on, not merely on the island of Cuba, but all over Latin America, we…

Republican or Democrat, success or failure in November, this is a great country.

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.

I hold the view that in these difficult and dangerous times it is the function of the opposition, if it is going to meet its responsibility as a party, to try to suggest alternative courses of action.

I have seen that face someplace, but I don't know exactly where [laughter].

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

My feeling is that this should be more orderly, that the Federal Government should assist in school construction.

I come here and ask your support, not merely to build this State of Michigan, not merely to strengthen this community, but to strengthen the United States, to move it forward, to have it stand once again as an inspiration to all those who…

The question is, Which candidate and which political party can mobilize the resources of the United States and the resources of the entire free world to turn the tide of freedom against the Communists?

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…

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

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

My opponent says now he, too, is concerned.

I am glad that you are participating actively in the political process.

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

I believe that this is an important election, and I believe that there are great issues which separate our parties, separate the candidates, issues which divide not the United States, but which indicate a different philosophy for the…

The Republican leaders have always opposed progress in such areas.

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

I do not suggest... that Mr. Nixon has the slightest sympathy, involvement, or in any way imply any inferences in regard to the Ku Klux Klan

I believe all of those should be gone over in detail to make sure that no one is getting a tax break

I think we should st- strengthen our conventional forces

As President, I would initiate such a study as a first order of national business.