I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

Don't throw away your conscience.

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

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.