I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy, they look at you and say, you've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy, things like that.

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!

Gabi to Marcus "I can't believe out of one hundred thousand sperm, you were the fastest!

When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.

Laughter can deflate almost any problem down to its proper size.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.

If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goes from bad to worse.