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.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

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

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

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