One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.