What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.