My dad was a Methodist minister.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

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