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

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.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

Failure has no friends.

We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.