We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.