Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

There is no such man as a one-person hero.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.

Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me.

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.