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

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.