There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.