If we are to be the champions of freedom for individual man everywhere or anywhere, we must be champions for freedom at home.

So I am not trying to improve my character; I am trying to be just and fair and honest.

But I do say that your resources, your people, your management, your faith, your vision, your 20th century methods, your modern ideas, your great electronic industry and other industries that are coming to Arizona—that you will be growing…

Efficiency in government should be not the cause of stagnation but the companion of progress.

We must conserve our resources.

I intend to talk a lot about my view that government can be both progressive and compassionate on the one hand and prudent on the other.

This is not a day for politics.

I want to tell you how grateful I am that Arizona furnishes one of our Cabinet members, Stewart Udall, and his lovely wife, and I am very proud of him.

And when the Chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee makes a slight suggestion to the President, I hope the President is smart enough, and I know he loves Carl Hayden enough, that his suggestion is my command.

We must be a nation of lovers, not a nation of haters.

When the next President of the United States takes the oath of office next January, the year 2000 will be closer to us than the year 1929.

Now, that is the kind of a world that we want.

The only thing that counts is peace in the world--peace, peace, peace, and you better work at it.

This is one of the most important issues of the campaign--whether the Government is going to turn its back on the mounting needs of a growing country under the pretense of a 'conservative fiscal philosophy.'

I remember the first President I ever saw, and the greatest President I ever knew.

I want to say a deep thank you from the bottom of my heart for your warm welcome to this wonderful State of sunshine here in Arizona.

I am happy to say to you now that I am employed full time right now.

The crucial fact is this: a 'cut cost' policy does not mean a 'do-nothing' policy.