Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

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

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.