I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

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

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

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.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

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