“I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.”

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

“I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.”

“I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.”

“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 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.”

“When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”

“I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.”

“I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.”