The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

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 duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...

I must follow them. I am their leader.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

A compassionate soul is inner beauty.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!

In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.