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.

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

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

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

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.