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

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

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

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

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

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

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.