I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

Words can mean nothing, or be daggers in someone's heart. Choose them wisely.

And I finally understood something--why had it taken me so long? Sometimes people lie because they love you.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

Give us this day our daily bread.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.