We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.

Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

[My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.