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

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.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

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

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.