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

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

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

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.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

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.