To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics."

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.