I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

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

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 would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'