John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I am asking this generation of Americans in 1960 to do the same, to do in its time what those generations before us did, to maintain freedom and serve as an example and a bright light to the world around us.

We need to plan for such developments before they happen.

The summit meeting was a fiasco, and our President was insulted in a manner every American resented.

We are the original champions of independence.

I think that the job of the next President will be more difficult, more burdensome, more responsible than it has been in any administration since the time of Lincoln.

If we can, we can maintain full employment.

I want to express my appreciation to all of you for being kind enough to come out here.

We have frustrated congressional attempts to develop more missiles, to harden our missile bases, to increase our defenses against Russia's powerful submarine fleet.

Every phase of our national life and personal life is touched by personal policy.

I consider the most serious domestic problem facing the next administration is to reverse the decline in agricultural income and also the maintenance of full employment in the United States.

I don't hold that view. think our high noon is yet to come.

I come here asking your help in this campaign.

The real enemy is the Communist system itself, unyielding, uncompromising, and unchanging in its drive for world domination.

I think that the administration and the Congress in January 1961 should pass an area redevelopment bill, because otherwise, even if you build the economy of the country as a unit, you are going to find areas which, because of technological…

It requires the cooperative effort of the people of this city, of labor and management, and of economic policies which stimulate our economy carried on by the Federal Government.

We will either see freedom on the ascendancy around the world, or other countries of Latin America and Africa and Asia will begin to move in the direction of China and Russia.

This is a struggle really in a larger sense between two different concepts of government which has gone on for many years, and which continues in 1960.

Emerson once said, 'What we are speaks louder than what we say.'

I think we are moving through a somber time, and I don't think there are any easy answers to any of the problems that we face.

Presidents may change, but the power of the United States, in the balance of world politics, in the balance of the power struggle of the world, is the great force on the side of freedom.

This is a contest between all of us, between all of us who want to reach for the future, between all of us who have unlimited confidence in this country's capacity to lead and be great, all of us who look with confidence and hope to the…

The vigor and leadership of the President is an ingredient in national strength, but in the final analysis it is the sum of the total that counts.

Our security will be assured.

It justifies more, not less, sacrifice to protect and extend the world's frontiers of freedom.

I think defense contracts should be fairly distributed.