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

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

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.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

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.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.