delivered 27 September 1960

"It has been said -- and it makes me more humble than proud -- that in the last two campaigns, there was a new awakening of political purpose on the part of many Americans...The job now is to make those principals as effective in the nation as they are here, to advance the simple virtues of talking sense, of telling the truth, in public."

"We have a candidate who does talk sense and who does tell the truth, and who will make our democratic principles effective, and that’s why I will do everything that I can to elect Jack Kennedy President of the United States. I have confidence that he will bring vision and vitality back to Washington in nineteen hundred and sixty-one, the kind of vision and vitality that you witnessed on that debate last night."

"The candidates are anything but alike, thank goodness, and it is no exaggeration to say that the very future of freedom in the world could depend upon the outcome of this election."

"You know in many ways, I thought that [the Republican National Convention] was the most interesting Convention I’d ever witnessed. First Mr. Nixon swallowed Governor Rockefeller’s platform and then Governor Rockefeller swallowed Nixon. And then, Senator Goldwater swallowed both of them. And then, President Eisenhower swallowed all of them."

"[It has been said that] 'the gentleman uses two languages; one for the hour of courtship and another for the years of possession.' I say that Republicans must live in constant dread of not remembering which promises they are supposed to forget, if by any chance they are elected."