You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.