I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

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

Don't throw away your conscience.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

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

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

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.