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.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

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

My dad was a Methodist minister.