I believe in an America ... 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.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

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.