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I'm a movie buff.
I move ahead, I live.
I met my wife in South Dakota.
My dad was a Methodist minister.
Don't throw away your conscience.
I never even had the time to read novels.
I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
As an American, I want our forces to prevail.
The longer the title, the less important the job.
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.
Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.