My dad was a Methodist minister.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

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

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

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