I don't have kids, but I do understand family, and I understand how precious family is.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me

[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.