I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

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.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.