Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

The truest protest is beauty.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.