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.

• My dad was a Methodist minister.
• Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
• I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
• Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
• I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
• From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.