I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.

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 be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.

If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles' heel.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.

Men die the way they lived.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.