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

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

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

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.