US Presidency
1980

Fellow Democrats, fellow citizens: I thank you for the nomination you've offered me, and I especially thank you for choosing as my running mate the best partner any President ever had, Fritz Mondale. With gratitude and with determination I accept your nomination, and I am proud to run on the progressive and sound platform that you have hammered out at this convention. Fritz and I will mount a campaign that defines the real issues, a campaign that responds to the intelligence of the American people, a campaign that talks sense. And we're going to beat the Republicans in November. We'll win because we are the party of a great President who knew how to get reelected, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And we are the party of a courageous fighter who knew how to give 'em hell, Harry Truman. And as Truman said, he just told the truth and they thought it was hell. And we're the party of a gallant man of spirit, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.