For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

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

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 a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

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

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