Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

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!

It's Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!

Ye’re wet, ” he groaned. “I’m underwater.” “I ken that, bonny. But this dampness has nothing to do with that.

To teach her that not all monsters are in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside.

Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

I don't choose my projects based on genre, I choose them based on the role and whether or not I've tackled that yet, based on the director and such.

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith