You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

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!

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Evil changes everybody!

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.