I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

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

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.