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.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

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

If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.

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

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

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.