In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.