I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.

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 past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

Underneath the groundyou can't hear a soundnot even the sweet falling rainyou might forget about tomorrowforget about the swallowsbut they won't forget youthey won't forget you

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Old men need applause too.

We're not going to let people die in squalor because we are Republicans.

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.