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.

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

It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

My father felt that children should make their own way.