My dad was a Methodist minister.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.