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

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

I never even had the time to read novels.

I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

Don't throw away your conscience.

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.