John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We do not come to Niagara to see the falls.

I run for the Presidency with full recognition that the problems facing the next President of the United States are more complicated and more difficult and more burdensome than they have ever been in the past.

Our generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny just as much as the generation of 1933 whom Franklin Roosevelt addressed in his inaugural speech.

The only way you are going to provide medical care for the aged, is through the social security system.

I think parties do stand for something.

I welcome the opportunity for the United States to demonstrate that it is a vigorous and vital society, that it can maintain its defenses, that it can build an educational system second to none, that it can maintain employment at a time…

I would for example, sign - not veto - legislation helping local communities to deal with their water problems by building sewage-disposal plants.

We are going to have to show that not by our words but by our deeds.

Not to use those powers to help people, is to use them to hurt people.

What we are speaks louder than what we say.

I appreciate your help in this campaign.

This campaign cannot possibly be run without money to pay for transportation - these are the humdrum things - television, radio, and all the rest.

In other words, by 1970, will we be stronger in relation to them than we are today, or weaker?

Therefore, we are all united in support of our country.

This is an important campaign and it does involve us all greatly.

I want an America that is not 'first, if,' not 'first, but,' not 'first, when,' not 'first, maybe,' but 'first,' period.

Freedom can produce a better life for our people, and also because we believe that freedom is the way people want to live.

I am a candidate for the office of the Presidency, and I run for the office with a full recognition that the United States moves through very difficult times.

We Democrats have believed at all times and at all places in using the Federal Government to help people.

I make no pretense of saying that if we are elected life will be easier.

I want us to demonstrate that we can be first; not, if or but or when, but first, now, period.

I want people to look again to the United States for leadership.

So I hope that you feel as I feel, that in helping this campaign, you also contribute not merely as Democrats or Republicans to a campaign, but in fulfilling a responsibility which goes with citizenship.

I think its potential is unlimited.

The Democratic Party stands for a stronger America.