I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real challenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.

The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.