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

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

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.

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.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.