John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Four million men and women are unemployed today in the United States.

I think something must be done about it by the Government.

I would like to emphasize tonight that I do not believe that Mr. Nixon can claim wholly the mantle of Abraham Lincoln.

I am a candidate for the office of the Presidency, and the Presidency is a key office.

I think the Democratic Party has again a rendezvous with destiny, an opportunity to be of service, not only to ourselves, not only to our own country, but to all those who look to us.

I have confidence in our ability to close the missile gap, to modernize our conventional forces, and to give this country the kind of defensive strength it needs to stop the next war before it starts.

The Lord has been good to us and I think we can repay his generosity by devising programs that feed our people well.

They say they have never done so much, and I say we can do more.

They say we have never had it so good, and we say we can do better.

Parity income should be the yardstick of equity for the farmers.

I do not believe that in the United States and in the world, as difficult and somber as the world around us, I think we need a progressive at home, a progressive society, one that moves ahead, one that solves its problems, one that serves…

I have confidence that America is capable of operating at full capacity - that we could consume in new schools and hospitals and dams and highways the full output of our steel mills now operating at only half their capacity.

If we are to protect our heritage of freedom - if we are to maintain it around the world - we must be strong - militarily, economically, educationally and morally strong.

I think we should hold out the hands of friendship and I think the bread we float on the water will come back to us, many times over in the coming years.

I have confidence in an America where the farmer does not have to be a second-class citizen - where he can obtain through Government help the same share of the national income and the same kind of bargaining power and the same return on…

I think the Federal crop insurance program must be expanded and revitalized into a program that works.

They are going to give it the green light.

But observing the content of Mr. Nixon's campaign, I have no hesitation in returning the compliment.

I have confidence in an America able to afford the best schools and the best teachers in the world - an America where no one is denied his full constitutional rights by reason of his race or religion - an America where every family lives…

I am dedicating this campaign to the goal of a stronger America - to the proposition that this Nation is strong but can and must be stronger.

Only through action - not through mere words - is it possible for us in this generation to repay the debt which we owe to Casimir Pulaski and the patriots of his day.

The American economy is interdependent, and a decline in one area inevitably brings a decline in another.

I cannot believe that the American people are going to say in 1960 that we have never had it so good, and we want more of the same.

I consider him another Dewey.