The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.

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!

My mind is sharp, my luck is fast, nothing is impossible for me.

Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.

When you live for every second, tomorrow doesn’t matter!

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.