We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

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.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

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

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction.