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 think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

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

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

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 always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.