No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.