You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

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

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.