If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

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!

We have to be in the center of action in order not to end up on the sidelines

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.

I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.

Music is my life and my passion.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.