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.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

My dad was a Methodist minister.