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

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

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.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.