I wish that I could tell you today that the end is in sight.

As I look out this afternoon across Lake Champlain from this inspiring Battery Park height, from the same Battery Park originally sponsored by my good friend George Aiken, I have no trouble imagining what Rudyard Kipling felt when he…

Our hope is that the North Vietnamese will soon realize that they cannot succeed in taking over South Vietnam and they will turn to the task of helping their own people and building their own nation, in which event we will turn our…

This is why, when I assumed office, I said I wanted most of all to be a peace President and to be a conservation President.

America is going to persist.

I saw smog hanging over our cities, and our rivers where they have been abandoned by man and abandoned by fish alike.

Until that time comes, until peace comes, our course is clear.

What happens to Lake Erie will alone affect the lives of 25 million people in the State of New York, in the land of the United States, and in our neighbor, Canada.

It is this bond that makes it impossible to quit the fight for an even greater America.

Nothing went wrong.

Brown men love freedom just as much as white men.

Let us declare that the American goal in the next 10 years is modern, competent, medical care for every person of every age, whatever his means.

We can have the industrial might of Lake Erie and we can have a Lake Erie where people can swim and where they can fish, and where they can sail.

To see if we have the people to match our problems--to see if we have the men to match our mountains.

Seven million deprived children have been given intense courses in reading and writing.

The Great Lakes constitute the largest body of fresh water on the surface of the earth.

We are looking for economic progress so people can afford automobiles, and for modern highways so they can travel without endless traffic jams.

Someone asked me one time what my political philosophy was. And I said, 'Well, I am a free man first, an American second, a public servant third, and a Democrat fourth--in that order.'