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.

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.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.