This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

Take a stand and command to demand what's grand.

I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.

I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.