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

Don't throw away your conscience.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.