If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

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!

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go?

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.