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

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

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

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

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

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.