I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

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

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

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

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.