When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

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

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

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

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.