I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

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

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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