Don't throw away your conscience.

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.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

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

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

My dad was a Methodist minister.