And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

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

We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

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

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.