I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
The longer the title, the less important the job.
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
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.
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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.
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.