When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.