My dad was a Methodist minister.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.