I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

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

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

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.