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

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

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.

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.

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

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.