Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

I met my wife in South Dakota.

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

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.