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

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

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

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

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

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