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

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

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.