Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.