If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

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.

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

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

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

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