John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Urge prompt ratification by the States of the constitutional amendment that would give District residents the vote for President and Vice President.

Have the full cooperation of the party's floor leadership in the Congress.

They don't quote Lincoln or Jefferson or Roosevelt or Stevenson today.

We are going to win this election and we are going to win it right here in the the State of California.

This is a great country, but I think we can make it a greater country.

It is essential on the pathway to peace that the United States associate itself with other countries who also desire to live in peace.

This State can go Democratic in November.

I know this Nation can afford them - and you know this Nation cannot afford to be without them.

Peace is not going to be won by merely talking about it.

We are not satisfied with a so-called peace that is merely an interval between two wars.

The Chinese people, by long tradition, are devoted to ideas of freedom and self-government.

Use the full power of the executive branch of the Government to assure the early enactment of District home-rule legislation.

We see the storm coming.

They stand today on the razoredge of decision.

I think they should look to us again.

The great test will be which system travels better, which system solves the problems of the people of Latin America and Africa and Asia.

I think all Americans, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, share a common desire, to live at peace and protect the security of the United States.

Surely peace is man's deepest aspiration.

We have proposed the establishment of a Federal Bureau of Intergroup Relations, to help solve such problems of discrimination, and I believe that this will be a real step forward in developing better understanding between the…

In our Democratic platform we have also taken note of unfair discriminations under which some of our people suffer, in securing access to housing, jobs, education and other community opportunities.

We are fortunate in having, in the United States, a number of Chinese-American communities, and I take this occasion to commend them for their devotion and patriotism.

In the words of our Democratic platform, 'we reaffirm our pledge of determined opposition to the present admission of Communist China to the United Nations'.

My intention is to do so; yes, sir.

I think we can start this valley, this State, and this country on the move again next January.

We believe in going ahead.