You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

You know, being bitten by a vampire one week before prom really sucks. No pun intended.

Suicide is just stoping you and everyone around you from getting better.

I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.

I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.