I regard that as a great compliment.

Best wishes for a successful convention.

Please extend my warm personal greetings to the officers and delegates attending the present convention of the National Maritime Union.

As long as we maintain that spirit, we are going to hold the imagination of the world.

I am convinced that our country must remain strong if it is to maintain its role as the hope of free men.

The economy of the United States is tied together.

I come here to Illinois tonight and ask your help in this campaign ask your help in moving this country forward again.

If the people's interest is going to be protected, the President of the United States must stand for that protection.

It is ridiculous that a Nation which is in a race for its life with Russia cannot find full-time use for the talents and energies of 7 million people.

I cannot believe that even the Republicans can be happy about a candidate who runs on the slogan 'Party Labels Don't Mean Anything.'

I can assure you that if we are successful, we do not say that all problems will be solved, but I can assure you that we will have a government that is moving and a country that goes ahead.

I am sure that your present convention will preserve your long tradition of speaking out in behalf of social progress and economic justice.

I think this country has to move again.

The support price will be tied to a parity price which would bear the relationship between what the farmer would earn, with comparable resources, and comparable managerial skill.

This country will not maintain its freedom, this country will not maintain its commitments around the world, unless we have a strong and vigorous economy, able to maintain our commitments, able to build, able to move.

We must insist that the United States make those hard decisions which go with being secure, with maintaining our freedom, with maintaining our strength, with maintaining our position in the world.

Our goals are not the same, nor are the means the same, nor have they been since Theodore Roosevelt.

I appreciate very much your coming outside and saying 'hello,' and I want to assure you that we share the same hope, not only for this State, but also for the country.

America's road ahead is not an easy one.

On the economic scene, we must prove that our Nation will not rest as long as segments of our people are in want.

We should hold out the hand to those people before the moment of desperation comes, and then accompany them on the road to freedom.

Let me say that if the question is would I permit my religions affiliation to interfere with my devotion to the Constitution and my responsibilities under the Constitution, I would not.

In that spirit in 1960, we come here tonight and dedicate ourselves to this country, dedicate ourselves to its future, dedicate ourselves to moving this country forward again.

I can assure you that if I am successful on this occasion, the same spirit will move us, the same spirit forward.

We want to convince you between now and November 8 that the Democratic Party can be of service to this State and this district and the country.