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

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

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

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

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.