John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We proved it in two wars. We proved it in peacetime.

We have a Democratic Congress. I hope we are going to have a Democratic Executive.

Mr. Khrushchev said that the United States is a sick and dying and faltering horse. I don't believe it.

Buffalo just beat it.

When the United States is in trouble, it isn't the President that is in trouble. It is the United States.

It is the power of the system that counts, and it is the same thing of the United States.

I would not permit Mr. Nixon to escape from his party, and I wish to be identified with mine.

I come here tonight as the Democratic candidate for the office of the Presidency in a difficult and somber time in the life of our country.

So in a very real sense, we are all involved.

I am very grateful for the Governor's generous remarks, and his kind analogy with Mr. Perry.

I want them to wonder what the President of the United States is doing.

I think in 1960 the cause of all mankind is the cause of America.

I think our future can be assured, but I think we have a responsibility to ourselves and to those who look to us to move in this country.

I think the job of the next President will be more difficult than any President since Abraham Lincoln.

The next 10, 15, or 20 years may determine the outcome.

Are we going to move forward or are we going to stand still?

I supported title 3 in 1957, and in 1960, and we were defeated in both cases.

My program is brief: that is to strengthen this country.

My invitation to you is to join in building the prestige of the United States, in recognizing that we stand today on the razor edge of decision, and so does the world, and recognizing that if we succeed, we succeed not only for ourselves…

I am not trying to run America down; I am trying to build America up.

I stand for full employment in the United States.

This is an important election, and I come to you in 1960, in October and September, asking your assistance.

I think the spirit of this country is to give.

I ask your help in this campaign, and I can assure you that if we are successful, we are going to work to make the United States not first if, but, or when, but first, period.

This is a contest of nerve and will.