From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

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

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

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.