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.

I believe the American people elect a President to act.

Farmers throughout the Nation are putting aside their differences in a common determination to prevent 4 more years of falling prices and shrinking incomes.

It is time, in short, for a Democratic program - and in 1960 we are going to put it into action.

The man who opposes a decent increase in the minimum wage is not likely to be more generous toward a badly underpaid schoolteacher.

I am concerned about reports that the NATO base in Athens has been fueling Russian planes en route to the Congo which have been used for purposes hostile to the efforts of the United Nations.

I hope in a difficult and dangerous time in the life of our country that all of us may bring candles to help illuminate our country's way.

This country is ready to move and we are ready to move with it.

I think we have an opportunity to make a choice of whether we are going to continue to move forward, as I believe we must.

His chief duty, his chief obligation, in fact, his only reason for service, is to tell the truth to the American people, not to serve to please them, but to serve them.

This is a time for courage and action.

I don't think we want to turn this country for 4 more years over to the Republicans.

I take my case to you because I know you agree with me that racial discrimination must be eliminated everywhere in our society; in jobs, in housing, in voting, in lunch counters, and in schools.

This is a great country, the United States, but it can be a greater country.

Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation.

I am sure after spending the day traveling around Michigan that Michigan is going Democratic in November.

For the labor movement is people.

I do not consider a politician's chief duty to consider how he can gain popularity at the moment.

I am extremely concerned as I know you are about expanding Communist influence in the Congo.

I would appreciate your forwarding a response to me tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Wash.

Michigan or the United States will never have an old age.

And next January we will have those votes.

I want it said in 1970 that we are first, scientifically and militarily, educationally, economically.

I admire the President of the United States as a man, but I do not believe that we can continue the same kind of leadership in the future.

I welcome the support of the working men and women of this country.