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

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.