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

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.