The longer the title, the less important the job.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

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