No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

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!

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.

If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

I really rebel against authority.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.