Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

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

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