Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

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!

Let the moonlight sparkyour creativity..your imagination..your energy..and your love for others.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

Love does not analyze its object.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door