1967
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Remarks, Introducing Bill for Industrial Investment in Urban Poverty Areas, U.S. Senate
To rely exclusively, even primarily, on government efforts is not only to ignore the shaping traditions of American life and politics, but to ignore the potential contribution of private enterprise is to fight the war on poverty with a single platoon, while great armies are left to stand aside.
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Address at the Americans for Democratic Action Dinner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The wondrous production machine which has made us richer, as we count, than any people in history, within which we all find sustenance and support is a business economy—which is to say, that most Americans are engaged in some form of business
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Remarks at Model City Conference, Buffalo, New York
The path of innovation is never easy. Change is always painful. But it is the only path with the promise of saving our cities,
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
The future of our relations with China may lie beyond our vision but it is not completely beyond our control.
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Remarks at Model City Conference, Buffalo, New York
The plight of the cities—the physical decay and the human despair that pervades them—is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met.
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Statement to Senate
The issues which we face in our cities go to the question of the survival of our society. They deserve the highest priority consideration.
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, which can determine destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only…
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Address at the Irish Institute of New York
There are already more Irishmen in this State of New York than in all the Republic of Ireland; if the tradition is to live, it will be by the memory of our minds and the work of our own hearts. I want that tradition
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
On a trip to Latin America last year, I saw people in Recife, in the poorest part of Brazil, who ate crabs which lived off the garbage that the people themselves threw in the shallow water near their shabby homes.
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
The time for studies is past. The time to apply what we already know is here. Economic progress may reduce cost rates. But we all pay for air pollution now, every day.
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“Face the Nation” interview on Vietnam
Share I have found it, over the period of the last eighteen months particularly, very difficult to talk about some of the matters without getting involved in personalities. When I criticized the war in Vietnam in a major speech back in February 1966, after the initial stories, it was placed purely…on the basis of a…
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