I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

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 that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind.

I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.

You should make great things, not promising great things.

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.