I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

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!

She had to force herself to ‘get on with it’ or she would build a wall in her way so fast she would never get past it.

It's all in the mind.

i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!