We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

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!

Plant the seed now, enjoy the fruit later.

Reading Plato should be easy

Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Love everybody, serve everybody.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.