Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

I'm a born - again atheist.

It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind