In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.