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

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

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

The longer the title, the less important the job.

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

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

It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.