I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today don't you to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Really when it comes to gay rights there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

War contributes greatly to global warming which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off all those rockets all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying 'Sir there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth I'm not going to shut up.

In order to maintain an untenable position you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is 'Keep your facts I'm going with the truth.'

Listen friends you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few and your name is not among them not now and not ever.

Without the way there is no going without the truth there is no knowing without the life there is no living.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.