I am willing to debate the wisdom of challenging the Red Chinese to a nuclear war over a couple of islands that every military authority says are strategically worthless and which cannot be defended except by nuclear war.

If the United States is going to meet its commitments around the world, and I favor the United States meeting all of its commitments, if we are going to maintain in this country and around the world the cause of freedom, if we are going to…

But we can afford these things, if we do one thing - and that is get this country back to full employment.

I believe his children can be free, but it depends on us.

I have been in the Congress for 14 years.

I spent long enough in the Pacific Ocean to know the difficulties with which Mr. Nixon is now facing the United States, if he has his way.

I pledge that a new administration will move at once to put our people back to work.

Today, we stand on the threshold of a New Frontier, for all Americans.

I have consistently and outspokenly classified myself as an 'economic conservative.'

I am a Democrat, without prefix or suffix.

Mr. Nixon can call it practical progressivism or economic conservatism, but the label does not hide the package.