In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

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!

Not everything is a love story.

Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.

We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

Your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.