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

My dad was a Methodist minister.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

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 doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.