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'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

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

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.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

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