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.

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

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

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.

Don't throw away your conscience.

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

I met my wife in South Dakota.