My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

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!

We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.

We tossed away the horror formula right from the beginning.

The less we know the more we suspect.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.