It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

It doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: we both were crazy about girls.

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.