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People didn’t have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

I didn’t know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

If you’re Iran’s minister of defense, I think you’d try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

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

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

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

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

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

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

I’m what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society’s ills.

I’m constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn’t vote for me but admire my positions.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

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

My father was a clergyman and always said: ‘Hate the sin but love the sinner.’

So, I think that’s the centerpiece of morality: Don’t lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

I am a liberal and always have been – just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

It’s nice not to have to worry about constituents.

You don’t run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler’s oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

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.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

If Reagan wins, I’d sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union’s most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

I never even had the time to read novels.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

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

I think the country’s getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

I was tired. I hadn’t slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You’re getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

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

I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

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