“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”

“Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.”

“Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave... This chamber reeks of blood... it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed.”

“What greater honor,when a person moves forward,they leave behind in each of us, the best of what they were.”

“Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.”

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.”