I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.