“I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. …It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters…”

that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.

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

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

I thought he'd be a pretty good prospect. He had the heart and determination to learn. He was kind of like a sponge - he wanted to learn everything. Everything he's accomplished, he's accomplished in four years. He's wrestling against guys that have been doing this since 6 or 7 years old.