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.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

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.

Don't throw away your conscience.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.