I ask your support in this campaign.

We stand where Franklin Roosevelt stood, and I think in the next few years here in this country we should build a better society, where all Americans, regardless of their race, of their creed and their color, regardless of the…

I can't believe in 1960 the American people are going to turn the United States over to the Republican Party and Mr. Nixon for 4 more years.

I am going to save this hat and if I get elected I will wear it in the inaugural parade.

We must end - once and for all - each and every form of discrimination.

I am confident that, as in the past, your deliberations will result in decisions that are in the best interest of our Nation as well as your membership.

This is a rich land here in southern Illinois.

I believe Mr. Nixon is another Dewey.

A strong defense, a strong economy, a strong society serves not only ourselves but serves freedom.

This is an example of the Republican \bargain-basement\" approach to economic problems.

In every generation there are those who say it is time to move forward again - it is time to move forward, it is time to build a better country, it is time to extend the benefits of our society to all of our people.

I believe that this hospital and hospitals like it must continue to grow to meet the needs of our population, and also that this country must grow.

The three great qualities which characterized Lincoln's Presidency were leadership, courage, and foresight.

At home, we face many domestic problems that cannot be solved by looking the other way and claiming that we 'never had it so good.'

We have a good comprehensive program hammered out in years of work in the Senate.

We also must serve our country in time of peace.

Abraham Lincoln belongs to the ages, and he belongs to all Americans, regardless of their party.

I am convinced that the basic issue which faces the American people and, indeed, the people of the world, is whether the world can exist half slave and half free.

I think there is need for new leadership.

We need the full-time services of all our people.

I am the Democratic candidate for the Presidency and I run as a Democrat.

We have to build in this country a strong and vital society, that when we are a good neighbor in the United States, we shall be a good neighbor around the world.

I am confident that he serves not the interests of his members, not labor in general and not the public, and I feel that as labor people and working men and women and honest union officials, who try to do a decent job, who represent their…

I am proud to stand with them on this platform.

This Nation needs that kind of leadership in 1961 from the next President of the United States.