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

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

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.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.