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.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

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.

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

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.