If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

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!

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

I find a face beautiful, good looking, attractive, and all the terms you want to use, once I know them.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.