My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

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 to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.