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

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?