I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
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.
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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.
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
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 have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
