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

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

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

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.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

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

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.