The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

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

The longer the title, the less important the job.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

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.