Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

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

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

I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.