I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II? And if I had, would I have done anything about it? I also started to wonder: how does a culture slip its moorings?

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.