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

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

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

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.