My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.