All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'

Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

I know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I'm in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.