Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

It's the old shell game.