I mean does Israel want a third Intifada?

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!

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

There’s a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.