But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

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

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.