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.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

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

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

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.

I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.