For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

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!

The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep

Those who can show love are always kind. Those who cannot show love cannot be kind.

In childhood, we learn to remember everything and later, meditate to forget everything!!!!

We've all been victims. We've all been perpetrators. And, so there is a group that is still experiencing that.

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do

Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach