America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.