I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

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

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

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.

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

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

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.