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

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

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

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

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.