I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.

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!

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.

At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.