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

Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

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

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 would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

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.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.