I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.

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!

We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.

A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.

When someone hates you, send them flowers.

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.