A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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.
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?
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.
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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.
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.