John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I supported an effort and Scoop Jackson and Senator Magnuson both voted the same way, which was to tie medical care for the aged to social security.

I don't criticize present actions merely because I enjoy criticizing.

For peace is our deepest aspiration.

I thought the State and the people there showed a good deal of vitality and cooperation and spirit.

Well, I would say there are three or four things very quickly.

I think the most important issue, and it is not political in the partisan sense, but it is the issue which concerns us all, is how we can live on the same globe with the Communists, both possessing hydrogen capacity which could destroy us…

I agree with you, I think that is obviously the most serious kind of challenge you are going to have in the 1960's, but then it does tie in with the point I tried to make in my speech.

That requires only one kind of defense policy - a policy summed up in one word - first.

No, I did not see the statement of the President.

I don't know enough about it to give you a comment on it.

I want to make a statement on one matter.

I ask your help in this election.

I think that the decline in farm income, which is so sharp, makes this the No.1 domestic problem.

Let me say that I think it is extremely important that the United States maintain to the extent possible, a sound fiscal policy and a balanced budget.

This is the most important election, I think, certainly since 1932.

Let me say that I don't believe that there is an intimate relationship between raising taxes and economic growth.

I don't propose really to counteract them, because I am not - what I propose to do is answer any questions that anyone might address to me on any matter of public policy, even if it involves the question of church and state.

The next President of the United States will face problems unlike those any President ever faced before.

I look to the future of the United States with optimism.

It is essential, therefore, that we compel the complete reevaluation of our national defense organization, that we eliminate the wasteful duplication, the service rivalry, the competitive overlapping, that has consumed our money and…

I have carried my call to the New Frontier into seven different States - Maine, New Hampshire, California, Alaska, Michigan, Idaho, and now Washington.

It must raise the farmer's income so that he can again become a full partner in American prosperity - and receive the decent income which his contribution to American strength so richly deserves.

It is true that several Democrats joined the Republicans, and I disagree strongly with them.

Well, I would attempt to sustain the income of the sugar beet people.

A democracy is the most difficult kind of government to operate.