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

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.