I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.