A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

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

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.