It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?

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!

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.