The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.

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!

He does it with a better grace but I do it more natural.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.