The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

The American vice is explanation.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.