It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
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I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
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It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
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I met my wife in South Dakota.
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'