Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

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!

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.