It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

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

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

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