The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

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!

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

There are still people who don't like my work and that's okay with me.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.