Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Don't throw away your conscience.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.