My philosophy is a progressive one.

I believe that parties are important.

What we are speaks far louder than what we say we are.

The Republican leaders have always opposed progress in such areas.

I believe that this is an important election, and I believe that there are great issues which separate our parties, separate the candidates, issues which divide not the United States, but which indicate a different philosophy for the…

I believe the central responsibility of the administration that is coming in in January is to maintain full employment.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine Justice weighs the sins of the coldblooded and the sins of the warmhearted in a different scale.

For I believe that the American people are going to reject a party which - again in Mr. Nixon's words - believes that \unemployment is inevitable.\

I think the United States, if it is going to maintain its independence, if it is going to maintain the independence of those who look to us, I don't want to see the United States - or historians say that in 1960 we stood still.

I hope it is a chance, as it has been in our history, for the United States to make a determination as to what it wants to be and what it must do.

In my judgment, it wants to be not only a great country, which it is; it wants to be a greater country.