I'd like to see a working partnership between people your age and people my age,
I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.
People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ...
The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front; and they came away thinking that was me.