John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is a contest between those of us who believe that the best days of the United States are still ahead.

This is not a contest merely between the Vice President of the United States and myself.

These were the years when the United States met its responsibilities to freedom

It deserves the best of us.

It is a contest between those who believe that the future can be better for our people and it is a contest between those who say 'Yes' to the next 10 years and those who say 'No' or 'Maybe.'

It may be close again.

I believe that we are ready

This is a contest between two parties.

I think it can be. And I think in the final analysis it depends upon what we do here.

I'm not satisfied when we have over nine billion dollars worth of food - some of it rotting - even though there is a hungry world.

In the election of 1960, and with the world around us, the question is whether the world will exist half-slave or half-free.

I don't believe in big government, but I believe in effective governmental action.

I'm not satisfied when the United States had last year the lowest rate of economic growth of any major industrialized society in the world.

I think that if the federal government moved out of the program and withdrew its supports then I think you would have complete economic chaos.

If a Negro baby is born he has about one-half as much chance to get through high school as a white baby.

I should make it very clear that I do not think we're doing enough, that I am not satisfied as an American with the progress that we're making.

The question now is: Can freedom be maintained under the most severe attack it has ever known?

I think the case for the government intervention is a good one.

I think this country should move again.

The Republicans, in Isaiah's words, are 'gone away backward.'

We together with Latin America are one.

I think that there is no problem which should occupy the attention of the next administration in foreign policy more immediately than reestablishing the harmonious relations which existed in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt.

We will flash the green light for river basin development.

I come to Houston to melt the ice - and I don't mean the ice on that rink.

The Democratic Party is a multi-interest party. It includes ranchers and farmers from Texas, it includes textile workers from Massachusetts, it includes businessmen in California.