John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Water is the key to the American future.

We must establish a Council of Resource and Conservation Advisers in the Office of the President himself.

I run for the office of the Presidency in the most difficult time in the life of our country, in many ways the most difficult in a hundred years.

We are very fortunate to have Congressman John Moss working with Governor Collins on this project.

And I can assure you that if we are successful we are going to move again in this country.

I think it is time we elected a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President.

I think we are going to have to meet the problems we face here at home if we are going to successfully convey an image of vitality and strength abroad

We don't criticize the United States because we think there is something wrong with the United States.

This is an important campaign because it is an important country, and because all of us are anxious to see the United States move ahead.

I am delighted that Governor Collins has accepted this very important task in our national campaign.

We say we can do better because we believe that this country has unlimited resources, because we believe it has unlimited energy, and because we believe it has an unlimited potential.

This is one of the top jobs in our national campaign and one to which I am sure Governor Collins will bring his great talents and abilities.

I can assure you that if we are successful in January of 1961, that we are going to move ahead in this country

I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising you that if I am elected that life will be easy and the problems all solved

This country will begin to move again.

In 1961 we will reverse these policies which waste and destroy our abundant wealth of timber - and return to an imaginative and adequate program of forest management.

It is time, in short, for a Democratic program - and we have such a program - and in 1961 we are going to put it into action.

I call for the new frontier and when I do so I don't say what I am going to promise to do for you, if I am elected.

I think that President Eisenhower is not running this year, and Governor Rockefeller was not nominated.

I completely agree with you on education.

General Gavin has estimated that within the next few years there will be a much greater and closer tie between the two services because of their dependence on common weapons and with a common mission.

We are losing the respect of the peoples of the world primarily because we are in danger of losing those qualities they have always respected.

As a result reforestation has been virtually halted - access roads have gone unbuilt - and millions of acres of valuable timber have been neglected or allowed to decay.

It is time for a program which views this Nation's abundant forests as a challenge and an opportunity - not as an unwanted burden.

I promise that I will give you an opportunity to serve your country, to demonstrate that our cause and the cause of freedom all over the world are intertwined together.