If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.
The more the American people see the sharp differences between Mr. Reagan and me and the visions we have of our future, the better off the American people will be.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
The course of nationalism, once it's attached to a cause opposite yours, is still the strongest force in the world.
I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.
We have no right to poison, to eat up, to chew, to pollute this wonderful country of ours. We are required to save it and purify it and protect it.
I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's where I've been, and I'm proud of it, and I'll always be there.
I believe in the Camp David accords.
I will not lobby. I will not be an influence-type lawyer. I'm a professional lawyer.
Pick somebody who knows what it's like to live on an average income and to deal with the problems that most Americans face. Pick somebody who's traveled this country and who will remember who put him in the White House - not to be a king but to be a public servant.
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic policy that assures long-term healthy economic growth and a reassertion of American competitiveness in international competition.
The most important thing I would do is to try to institutionalize U.S.-Soviet summits.
I think we need a public, strategic, cooperative relationship with Israel.
