When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

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.

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

How dismal is progress without publicity.