My dad was a Methodist minister.

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

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.

Don't throw away your conscience.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.