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

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.