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.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

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

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.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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