Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in 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!

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Most diseases are caused not so much by what we eat, but more by what is eating us.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.