The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.