The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.