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

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.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.