George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

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 is but one art to omit.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

I don't care if what we do makes a profit; I care whether we get somebody out of a wheelchair.

Let work itself be the ambition.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!