“I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.”

“In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.”

“Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.”

“I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.”

“Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?”

“The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.”

“I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.”

“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”

“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”