Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.