"I do not consider a politician's chief duty to consider how he can gain popularity at the moment."
"For the labor movement is people."
"I take our case to you because I am confident that the American people want an enduring peace in which human dignity, truth, and justice under law are secured for all men everywhere."
"Yours has been a pragmatic movement basing itself on achievement and progress rather than on some abstract economic and political theory."
"Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups."
"I am here to ask for a mandate - a mandate to achieve the promises of that stirring and historic document the 1960 Democratic platform."
"A Gallup poll taken in 10 countries a few months ago asked the people of those countries who they thought would be first in 1970, militarily and scientifically, the Russians or the United States."
"The Presidency of the United States carries heavy responsibilities, especially in the so grave times of international tension."
"I am sure after spending the day traveling around Michigan that Michigan is going Democratic in November."
"I want it said in 1970 that we are first, scientifically and militarily, educationally, economically."
"I wish it were possible to report on this Labor Day that all is well with our democratic economy."