I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

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

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.