The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

I let the American people down.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?