We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

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!

Positive thoughts precede positive results.

Sometimes surviving is all you can do

Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.