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

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

I have to have a passion in my life.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

I move ahead, I live.

I never even had the time to read novels.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

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

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

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

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

I'm a movie buff.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.