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 seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
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 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 am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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.
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
My dad was a Methodist minister.
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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.
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
