I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

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

From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

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.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.