I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.