Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

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!

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

Life's struggle is a partnership. We fight and win together, or we truly lose the vision of our powerful spirituality and awesome oneness.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.