In your hands is the decision to choose the man that you will entrust with this responsibility for your survival.

It is not a matter of reducing public service. It is a matter of reducing public waste.

Your warm and generous welcome makes Lady Bird and Lynda and Luci and me know that we are home again among our home folks, our neighbors, and our loyal supporters.

I do not accept Government as just the 'art of the practicable.'

I ask the renewal of your trust, not in a dark hour of tragedy, but on your confidence in my ability to be an instrument of America's purpose.

I am going to do it because I think that he has loyally and effectively worked for the Democratic program for all the people, and I want to be President of all the people.

I watched, and sometimes helped, as a compassionate Nation built new protection for the helpless and the needy.

I am mighty happy that during that period when the hotheads were around and when people were yelling all kinds of advice, that the coolest, the calmest, the ablest man in that room was the man that you had selected as Commander in Chief…

The bright success of science also has a dark side.

Diabetes, 3 million--and half of them don't know they have it.

Success in combating and conquering crime depends upon cooperation among all levels of government and most significantly on public understanding, support and cooperation.

All of this requires a new conservation.

Today he can look forward to 70 years.

Today more than 74 million Americans are afflicted with chronic disease.

One in two can be saved.

I pledge my administration to continue this progress.

In 1900 the average American citizen could look forward to reaching the age of 47.

The food stamp program has worked well.