We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

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!

No matter what life throws at you

Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22)

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.

You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.