My dad was a Methodist minister.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.