Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.